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EulerOS 2.0 SP10 : pkgconf (EulerOS-SA-2023-1559)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 172726

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - In pkgconf through 1.9.3, variable duplication can cause unbounded string expansion due to incorrect checks in libpkgconf/tuple.c:pkgconf_tuple_parse. For example, a .pc file containing a few hundred bytes can expand to one billion bytes. (CVE-2023-24056)

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 pkgconf packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?ded5d40f

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 172726

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2023-1559.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 3/19/2023

Updated: 8/30/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-24056

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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:pkgconf, 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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/18/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/10/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-24056