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EulerOS 2.0 SP11 : tar (EulerOS-SA-2024-1231)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 191866

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - A flaw was found in tar. This issue occurs when extended attributes are processed in PAX archives, and could allow an attacker to cause an application crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2023-39804)

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 tar packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?2e2091bc

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 191866

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2024-1231.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 3/12/2024

Updated: 11/13/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

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-2023-39804

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

Temporal Score: 5.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:tar

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

Excluded KB Items: Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/11/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/3/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-39804