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EulerOS 2.0 SP11 : ncurses (EulerOS-SA-2024-1805)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 198311

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 A vulnerability was found in GNU ncurses 6.4-20230610. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects the function tgetstr. There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.(CVE-2023-45918)

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

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?fa06d3d2

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 198311

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2024-1805.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Published: 6/3/2024

Updated: 11/1/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-45918

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/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: 5/31/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/16/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-45918