EulerOS Virtualization 2.10.1 : ncurses (EulerOS-SA-2024-2006)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 202655

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 :

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

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS Virtualization 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?2852f626

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 202655

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2024-2006.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Published: 7/18/2024

Updated: 11/1/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

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:aide, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:uvp:2.10.1, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:ncurses-libs, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:ncurses-base

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/EulerOS/release, Host/EulerOS/rpm-list, Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/19/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/16/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-45918