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EulerOS 2.0 SP1 : util-linux (EulerOS-SA-2017-1083)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 99949

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - A race condition was found in the way su handled the management of child processes. A local authenticated attacker could use this flaw to kill other processes with root privileges under specific conditions.
 (CVE-2017-2616)

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 util-linux package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?673ce554

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 99949

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2017-1083.nasl

Version: 3.13

Type: local

Published: 5/3/2017

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:X

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:libblkid, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:libblkid-devel, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:libmount, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:libuuid, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:libuuid-devel, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:util-linux, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:uuidd, 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: 4/13/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-2616