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EulerOS Virtualization 2.11.1 : gawk (EulerOS-SA-2023-3357)

high Nessus Plugin ID 188406

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - A heap out-of-bounds read flaw was found in builtin.c in the gawk package. This issue may lead to a crash and could be used to read sensitive information. (CVE-2023-4156)

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 gawk packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?b71405d8

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 188406

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2023-3357.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Published: 1/16/2024

Updated: 1/16/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.6

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-4156

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:gawk, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:uvp:2.11.1

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: 12/13/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/17/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-4156

IAVA: 2023-A-0444