EulerOS Virtualization 2.5.0 : openssh (EulerOS-SA-2018-1254)

high Nessus Plugin ID 117563

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing a security update.

Description

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

- sshd in OpenSSH before 7.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via an out-of-sequence NEWKEYS message, as demonstrated by Honggfuzz, related to kex.c and packet.c.(CVE-2016-10708)

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?45fca2ed

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 117563

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2018-1254.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Published: 9/18/2018

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:openssh, 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:uvp:2.5.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/EulerOS/release, Host/EulerOS/rpm-list, Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Patch Publication Date: 7/24/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-10708