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EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.2.6 : numpy (EulerOS-SA-2023-1072)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 169669
Synopsis
The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing a security update.Description
According to the versions of the numpy packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :- Buffer overflow in the array_from_pyobj function of fortranobject.c in NumPy < 1.19, which allows attackers to conduct a Denial of Service attacks by carefully constructing an array with negative values.
NOTE: The vendor does not agree this is a vulnerability; the negative dimensions can only be created by an already privileged user (or internally) (CVE-2021-41496)
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 numpy packages.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 169669
File Name: EulerOS_SA-2023-1072.nasl
Version: 1.2
Type: local
Family: Huawei Local Security Checks
Published: 1/6/2023
Updated: 1/16/2024
Supported Sensors: Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 4.4
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Low
Base Score: 2.1
Temporal Score: 1.6
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-41496
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5.5
Temporal Score: 5
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:numpy, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:uvp:3.0.2.6, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:numpy-f2py
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/EulerOS/release, Host/EulerOS/rpm-list, Host/EulerOS/uvp_version
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 1/6/2023
Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/17/2021
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2021-41496