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EulerOS 2.0 SP9 : elfutils (EulerOS-SA-2024-2361)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 207197

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 In elfutils 0.183, an infinite loop was found in the function handle_symtab in readelf.c .Which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via crafted file.(CVE-2021-33294)

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

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?57f6fcd5

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 207197

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2024-2361.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 9/12/2024

Updated: 9/12/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-33294

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:elfutils, 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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/11/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/18/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-33294