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EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.6.0 : ncurses (EulerOS-SA-2024-1693)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 197240

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - Buffer Overflow vulnerability in postprocess_terminfo function in tinfo/parse_entry.c:997 in ncurses 6.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted command. (CVE-2020-19189)

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 ncurses packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?1625dca0

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 197240

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2024-1693.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Published: 5/17/2024

Updated: 5/17/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-19189

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:ncurses, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:uvp:3.0.6.0, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:ncurses-term, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:ncurses-c%2b%2b-libs, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:ncurses-compat-libs, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:ncurses-libs, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:ncurses-base, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:ncurses-devel

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: 5/17/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/22/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-19189