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EulerOS 2.0 SP1 : httpd (EulerOS-SA-2017-1252)

high Nessus Plugin ID 104277

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - A use-after-free flaw was found in the way httpd handled invalid and previously unregistered HTTP methods specified in the Limit directive used in an .htaccess file. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to disclose portions of the server memory, or cause httpd child process to crash. (CVE-2017-9798)

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 httpd package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?d09c3870

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 104277

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2017-1252.nasl

Version: 3.14

Type: local

Published: 11/1/2017

Updated: 11/17/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-9798

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:httpd-tools, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:httpd-devel, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:httpd, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:mod_ssl, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:httpd-manual

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

Excluded KB Items: Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/19/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-9798