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EulerOS 2.0 SP11 : expat (EulerOS-SA-2024-1786)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 198323

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 libexpat through 2.5.0 allows recursive XML Entity Expansion if XML_DTD is undefined at compile time.(CVE-2023-52426)

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

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?e37d32b0

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 198323

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2024-1786.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 6/3/2024

Updated: 6/3/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-52426

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

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

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: 2/4/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-52426