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EulerOS 2.0 SP1 : openssh (EulerOS-SA-2017-1006)

high Nessus Plugin ID 99852

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the version of the openssh packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

 - The kex_input_kexinit function in kex.c in OpenSSH 6.x and 7.x through 7.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by sending many duplicate KEXINIT requests. NOTE: a third party reports that 'OpenSSH upstream does not consider this as a security issue.'(CVE-2016-8858)

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 openssh package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?a2b7356a

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 99852

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2017-1006.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Published: 5/1/2017

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

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:openssh, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:openssh-askpass, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:openssh-clients, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:openssh-keycat, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:openssh-server, 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: 1/12/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-8858