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EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : shadow-utils (EulerOS-SA-2018-1169)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 110745

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the version of the shadow-utils package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

 - A buffer overflow flaw leading to heap memory corruption was found in the shadow-utils's newusers utility. A local, authenticated attacker could potentially use this flaw to crash the newusers process by supplying crafted data to it.(CVE-2017-12424)

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 shadow-utils package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?f614a661

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 110745

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2018-1169.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Published: 6/28/2018

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:shadow-utils, 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: 6/13/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-12424