EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.6.6 : edk2 (EulerOS-SA-2023-2443)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 178870

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing multiple security updates.

Description

According to the versions of the edk2 package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

- Insufficient control flow management in BIOS firmware for 8th, 9th, 10th Generation Intel(R) Core(TM), Intel(R) Celeron(R) Processor 4000 & 5000 Series Processors may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable denial of service via adjacent access. (CVE-2019-14558)

- Use after free vulnerability in EDK II may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege, information disclosure and/or denial of service via adjacent access. (CVE-2019-14586)

- Logic issue EDK II may allow an unauthenticated user to potentially enable denial of service via adjacent access. (CVE-2019-14587)

- An unlimited recursion in DxeCore in EDK II. (CVE-2021-28210)

- Existing CommBuffer checks in SmmEntryPoint will not catch underflow when computing BufferSize.
(CVE-2021-38578)

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 edk2 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 178870

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2023-2443.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Family: Huawei Local Security Checks

Published: 7/26/2023

Updated: 7/26/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-38578

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:edk, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:uvp:3.0.6.6

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: 7/25/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/16/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-14558, CVE-2019-14586, CVE-2019-14587, CVE-2021-28210, CVE-2021-38578

Detections

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