EulerOS Virtualization 2.11.0 : libcap (EulerOS-SA-2023-2756)

low Nessus Plugin ID 188231

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing a security update.

Description

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

- A vulnerability was found in the pthread_create() function in libcap. This issue may allow a malicious actor to use cause __real_pthread_create() to return an error, which can exhaust the process memory.
(CVE-2023-2602)

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 libcap packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?86a251e1

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 188231

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2023-2756.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Published: 1/16/2024

Updated: 1/16/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.7

Temporal Score: 1.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-2602

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:libcap, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:uvp:2.11.0

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: 9/8/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/5/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-2602