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EulerOS 2.0 SP12 : glibc (EulerOS-SA-2024-2236)

high Nessus Plugin ID 205927

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 The iconv() function in the GNU C Library versions 2.39 and older may overflow the output buffer passed to it by up to 4 bytes when converting strings to the ISO-2022-CN-EXT character set, which may be used to crash an application or overwrite a neighbouring variable.(CVE-2024-2961)

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

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?1446571b

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 205927

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2024-2236.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Published: 8/20/2024

Updated: 10/21/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-2961

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.3

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:glibc-locale-archive, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:glibc, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:libnsl, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:nscd, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:glibc-common, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:glibc-locale-source, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:glibc-all-langpacks

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: 8/20/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/5/2024

Exploitable With

Metasploit (CosmicSting: Magento Arbitrary File Read (CVE-2024-34102) + PHP Buffer Overflow in the iconv() function of glibc (CVE-2024-2961))

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-2961