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EulerOS 2.0 SP12 : ncurses (EulerOS-SA-2024-1768)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 198214

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.

Description

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

 ncurses 6.4-20230610 has a NULL pointer dereference in tgetstr in tinfo/lib_termcap.c.(CVE-2023-45918)

 NCurse v6.4-20230418 was discovered to contain a segmentation fault via the component
 _nc_wrap_entry().(CVE-2023-50495)

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

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

Solution

Update the affected ncurses packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?10bfe0d0

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 198214

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2024-1768.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: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-50495

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:ncurses, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:ncurses-base, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:ncurses-libs, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0

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 Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/30/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/12/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-45918, CVE-2023-50495