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EulerOS 2.0 SP10 : c-ares (EulerOS-SA-2023-1948)

high Nessus Plugin ID 176001

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - A flaw was found in the c-ares package. The ares_set_sortlist is missing checks about the validity of the input string, which allows a possible arbitrary length stack overflow. This issue may cause a denial of service or a limited impact on confidentiality and integrity. (CVE-2022-4904)

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 c-ares packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?00245fb0

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 176001

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2023-1948.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Published: 5/18/2023

Updated: 5/18/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-4904

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:c-ares, 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: 5/17/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/20/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-4904