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EulerOS Virtualization 2.9.0 : glibc (EulerOS-SA-2023-2017)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 176585

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - A vulnerability was found in GNU C Library 2.38. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects the function __monstartup of the file gmon.c of the component Call Graph Monitor. The manipulation leads to buffer overflow. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. VDB-220246 is the identifier assigned to this vulnerability. NOTE: The real existence of this vulnerability is still doubted at the moment. The inputs that induce this vulnerability are basically addresses of the running application that is built with gmon enabled. It's basically trusted input or input that needs an actual security flaw to be compromised or controlled. (CVE-2023-0687)

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 glibc packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?3705de1d

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 176585

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2023-2017.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 6/2/2023

Updated: 1/16/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:A/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-0687

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:glibc, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:glibc-all-langpacks, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:glibc-common, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:glibc-debugutils, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:glibc-locale-source, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:libnsl, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:nscd, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:uvp:2.9.0

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: 6/1/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/6/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-0687