EulerOS Virtualization 2.10.1 : libarchive (EulerOS-SA-2022-2055)

high Nessus Plugin ID 163159

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing multiple security updates.

Description

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

- libarchive: extracting a symlink with ACLs modifies ACLs of target (CVE-2021-23177)

- libarchive: symbolic links incorrectly followed when changing modes, times, ACL and flags of a file while extracting an archive (CVE-2021-31566)

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 libarchive packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?a2655944

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 163159

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2022-2055.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Published: 7/14/2022

Updated: 12/8/2022

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-31566

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:libarchive, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:uvp:2.10.1

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: 3/15/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-23177, CVE-2021-31566