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EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : libguestfs (EulerOS-SA-2017-1061)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 99908

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - OCaml before 4.03.0 does not properly handle sign extensions, which allows remote attackers to conduct buffer overflow attacks or obtain sensitive information as demonstrated by a long string to the String.copy function.i1/4^CVE-2015-8869i1/4%0

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 libguestfs package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?5b265e20

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 99908

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2017-1061.nasl

Version: 3.13

Type: local

Published: 5/2/2017

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:libguestfs, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:libguestfs-java, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:libguestfs-tools, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:libguestfs-tools-c, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:libguestfs-xfs, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:python-libguestfs, 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: 3/26/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8869