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EulerOS 2.0 SP1 : glibc (EulerOS-SA-2016-1073)
high Nessus Plugin ID 99833
Synopsis
The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.Description
According to the version of the glibc packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :- A stack overflow vulnerability was found in
_nss_dns_getnetbyname_r.On systems with nsswitch configured to include 'networks: dns' with a privileged or network-facing service that would attempt to resolve user-provided network names, an attacker could provide an excessively long network name, resulting in stack corruption and code execution.(CVE-2016-3075)
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Update the affected glibc package.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 99833
File Name: EulerOS_SA-2016-1073.nasl
Version: 1.13
Type: local
Family: Huawei Local Security Checks
Published: 5/1/2017
Updated: 1/6/2021
Supported Sensors: Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 3.6
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5
Temporal Score: 3.7
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.5
Temporal Score: 6.5
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:U/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:glibc, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:glibc-common, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:glibc-devel, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:glibc-headers, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:glibc-static, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:glibc-utils, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:nscd, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/EulerOS/release, Host/EulerOS/rpm-list, Host/EulerOS/sp
Excluded KB Items: Host/EulerOS/uvp_version
Patch Publication Date: 11/3/2016
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2016-3075