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EulerOS Virtualization 2.12.1 : emacs (EulerOS-SA-2024-2303)

high Nessus Plugin ID 206515

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing multiple security updates.

Description

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

 In Emacs before 29.3, Org mode considers contents of remote files to be trusted. This affects Org Mode before 9.6.23.(CVE-2024-30205)

 In Emacs before 29.3, LaTeX preview is enabled by default for e-mail attachments.(CVE-2024-30204)

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

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?8d3cbb22

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 206515

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2024-2303.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Published: 9/3/2024

Updated: 12/4/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.7

Temporal Score: 1.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-30205

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:uvp:2.12.1, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:emacs-filesystem

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: 9/3/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/25/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-30204, CVE-2024-30205