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EulerOS Virtualization 2.10.0 : edk2 (EulerOS-SA-2022-2044)

high Nessus Plugin ID 163140

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the versions of the edk2 package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

 - A BIOS bug in firmware for a particular PC model leaves the Platform authorization value empty. This can be used to permanently brick the TPM in multiple ways, as well as to non-permanently DoS the system.
 (CVE-2021-38576)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected edk2 packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?08de324a

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 163140

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2022-2044.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Published: 7/14/2022

Updated: 7/14/2022

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-38576

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:edk2-ovmf, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:uvp:2.10.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/EulerOS/release, Host/EulerOS/rpm-list, Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/14/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/3/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-38576