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EulerOS 2.0 SP8 : c-ares (EulerOS-SA-2024-2458)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 207627

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 c-ares is a C library for asynchronous DNS requests. `ares__read_line()` is used to parse local configuration files such as `/etc/resolv.conf`, `/etc/nsswitch.conf`, the `HOSTALIASES` file, and if using a c-ares version prior to 1.27.0, the `/etc/hosts` file. If any of these configuration files has an embedded `NULL` character as the first character in a new line, it can lead to attempting to read memory prior to the start of the given buffer which may result in a crash. This issue is fixed in c-ares 1.27.0.
 No known workarounds exist.(CVE-2024-25629)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS c-ares 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 c-ares packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?bf07a274

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 207627

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2024-2458.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 9/24/2024

Updated: 9/24/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.5

Temporal Score: 3.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-25629

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/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:c-ares, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:c-ares-devel, 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 Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/23/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/23/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-25629