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EulerOS Virtualization 2.9.0 : util-linux (EulerOS-SA-2022-2211)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 163625

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the versions of the util-linux packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

 - A flaw was found in the util-linux chfn and chsh utilities when compiled with Readline support. The Readline library uses an 'INPUTRC' environment variable to get a path to the library config file. When the library cannot parse the specified file, it prints an error message containing data from the file. This flaw allows an unprivileged user to read root-owned files, potentially leading to privilege escalation.
 This flaw affects util-linux versions prior to 2.37.4. (CVE-2022-0563)

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 util-linux packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?5aa8dc5e

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 163625

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2022-2211.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Published: 7/29/2022

Updated: 7/29/2022

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.9

Temporal Score: 1.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-0563

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:libblkid, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:libfdisk, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:libmount, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:libsmartcols, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:libuuid, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:util-linux, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:util-linux-user, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:uvp:2.9.0

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: 7/29/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/21/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-0563