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EulerOS 2.0 SP8 : expat (EulerOS-SA-2024-2463)

high Nessus Plugin ID 207640

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 libexpat through 2.5.0 allows a denial of service (resource consumption) because many full reparsings are required in the case of a large token for which multiple buffer fills are needed.(CVE-2023-52425)

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

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?7e5aa69f

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 207640

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2024-2463.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 9/24/2024

Updated: 9/24/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-52425

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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:expat-devel, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:expat

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: 9/23/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/4/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-52425

IAVA: 2024-A-0134-S