EulerOS 2.0 SP12 : xmlrpc-c (EulerOS-SA-2024-2961)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 212629

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.

Description

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

An issue was discovered in libexpat before 2.6.3. dtdCopy in xmlparse.c can have an integer overflow for nDefaultAtts on 32-bit platforms (where UINT_MAX equals SIZE_MAX).(CVE-2024-45491)

An issue was discovered in libexpat before 2.6.3. xmlparse.c does not reject a negative length for XML_ParseBuffer.(CVE-2024-45490)

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 212629

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2024-2961.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Family: Huawei Local Security Checks

Published: 12/12/2024

Updated: 12/12/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-45491

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:xmlrpc-c-help, 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: 12/11/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/30/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-45490, CVE-2024-45491

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