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EulerOS Virtualization 2.9.1 : tar (EulerOS-SA-2023-2007)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 176574

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - GNU Tar through 1.34 has a one-byte out-of-bounds read that results in use of uninitialized memory for a conditional jump. Exploitation to change the flow of control has not been demonstrated. The issue occurs in from_header in list.c via a V7 archive in which mtime has approximately 11 whitespace characters.
 (CVE-2022-48303)

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 tar packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?6107e5e3

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 176574

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2023-2007.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Published: 6/2/2023

Updated: 6/2/2023

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-2022-48303

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:tar, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:uvp:2.9.1

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: 6/1/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/30/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-48303