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EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : gnutls (EulerOS-SA-2023-1504)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 172280
Synopsis
The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.Description
According to the versions of the gnutls packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :- A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in GnuTLS. As Nettle's hash update functions internally call memcpy, providing zero-length input may cause undefined behavior. This flaw leads to a denial of service after authentication in rare circumstances. (CVE-2021-4209)
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 gnutls packages.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 172280
File Name: EulerOS_SA-2023-1504.nasl
Version: 1.0
Type: local
Family: Huawei Local Security Checks
Published: 3/8/2023
Updated: 3/8/2023
Supported Sensors: Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 3.6
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.8
Temporal Score: 5
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-4209
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.5
Temporal Score: 5.7
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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:gnutls-devel, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:gnutls-c%2b%2b, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:gnutls, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:gnutls-utils, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:gnutls-dane, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/EulerOS/release, Host/EulerOS/rpm-list, Host/EulerOS/sp
Excluded KB Items: Host/EulerOS/uvp_version
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 3/8/2023
Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/24/2022
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2021-4209