EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.2.0 : grub2 (EulerOS-SA-2023-1722)

high Nessus Plugin ID 175164

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing multiple security updates.

Description

According to the versions of the grub2 packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

- A crafted 16-bit grayscale PNG image may lead to a out-of-bounds write in the heap area. An attacker may take advantage of that to cause heap data corruption or eventually arbitrary code execution and circumvent secure boot protections. This issue has a high complexity to be exploited as an attacker needs to perform some triage over the heap layout to achieve signifcant results, also the values written into the memory are repeated three times in a row making difficult to produce valid payloads. This flaw affects grub2 versions prior grub-2.12. (CVE-2021-3695)

- A heap out-of-bounds write may heppen during the handling of Huffman tables in the PNG reader. This may lead to data corruption in the heap space. Confidentiality, Integrity and Availablity impact may be considered Low as it's very complex to an attacker control the encoding and positioning of corrupted Huffman entries to achieve results such as arbitrary code execution and/or secure boot circumvention. This flaw affects grub2 versions prior grub-2.12. (CVE-2021-3696)

- A flaw in grub2 was found where its configuration file, known as grub.cfg, is being created with the wrong permission set allowing non privileged users to read its content. This represents a low severity confidentiality issue, as those users can eventually read any encrypted passwords present in grub.cfg.
This flaw affects grub2 2.06 and previous versions. This issue has been fixed in grub upstream but no version with the fix is currently released. (CVE-2021-3981)

- Out-of-bounds write when handling split HTTP headers; When handling split HTTP headers, GRUB2 HTTP code accidentally moves its internal data buffer point by one position. This can lead to a out-of-bound write further when parsing the HTTP request, writing a NULL byte past the buffer. It's conceivable that an attacker controlled set of packets can lead to corruption of the GRUB2's internal memory metadata.
(CVE-2022-28734)

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 grub2 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 175164

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2023-1722.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Family: Huawei Local Security Checks

Published: 5/6/2023

Updated: 1/17/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Temporal Score: 5.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3696

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-28734

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:grub2-tools, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:grub2-tools-extra, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:grub2-tools-minimal, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:uvp:3.0.2.0, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:grub2-common, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:grub2-efi-aa64, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:grub2-efi-aa64-modules

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: 5/6/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/30/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3695, CVE-2021-3696, CVE-2021-3981, CVE-2022-28734

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