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EulerOS Virtualization 2.10.1 : kexec-tools (EulerOS-SA-2022-2933)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 169366
Synopsis
The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing a security update.Description
According to the versions of the kexec-tools package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :- A flaw was found in the permissions of a log file created by kexec-tools. This flaw allows a local unprivileged user to read this file and leak kernel internal information from a previous panic. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality. This flaw affects kexec-tools shipped by Fedora versions prior to 2.0.21-8 and RHEL versions prior to 2.0.20-47. (CVE-2021-20269)
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 kexec-tools packages.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 169366
File Name: EulerOS_SA-2022-2933.nasl
Version: 1.0
Type: local
Family: Huawei Local Security Checks
Published: 12/28/2022
Updated: 12/28/2022
Supported Sensors: Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 3.6
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Low
Base Score: 2.1
Temporal Score: 1.6
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-20269
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:kexec-tools, 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: 12/28/2022
Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/9/2021
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2021-20269