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EulerOS 2.0 SP12 : pam (EulerOS-SA-2024-1770)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 198185

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 linux-pam (aka Linux PAM) before 1.6.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (blocked login process) via mkfifo because the openat call (for protect_dir) lacks O_DIRECTORY.(CVE-2024-22365)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS pam security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected pam packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?55668fc0

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 198185

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2024-1770.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 5/30/2024

Updated: 5/30/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-22365

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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: 5/30/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/1/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-22365