EulerOS 2.0 SP11 : scipy (EulerOS-SA-2023-2853)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 189018

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.

Description

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

- A refcounting issue which leads to potential memory leak was discovered in scipy commit 8627df31ab in Py_FindObjects() function. (CVE-2023-25399)

- A use-after-free issue was discovered in Py_FindObjects() function in SciPy versions prior to 1.8.0. NOTE:
the vendor and discoverer indicate that this is not a security issue. (CVE-2023-29824)

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 scipy packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 189018

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2023-2853.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Family: Huawei Local Security Checks

Published: 1/16/2024

Updated: 1/16/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-29824

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: cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:python3-scipy

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/EulerOS/release, Host/EulerOS/rpm-list, Host/EulerOS/sp

Excluded KB Items: Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/20/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/5/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-25399, CVE-2023-29824

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