EulerOS 2.0 SP1 : xorg-x11-server (EulerOS-SA-2017-1295)
high Nessus Plugin ID 104913
Synopsis
The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.Description
According to the version of the xorg-x11-server packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :- In X.Org Server (aka xserver and xorg-server) before 1.19.4, a local attacker authenticated to the X server could overflow a global buffer, causing crashes of the X server or potentially other problems by injecting large or malformed XKB related atoms and accessing them via xkbcomp.(CVE-2017-13723)
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 xorg-x11-server package.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 104913
File Name: EulerOS_SA-2017-1295.nasl
Version: 3.13
Type: local
Family: Huawei Local Security Checks
Published: 12/1/2017
Updated: 1/6/2021
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 5.9
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4.6
Temporal Score: 3.4
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Temporal Vector: E:U/RL:OF/RC:C
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.8
Temporal Score: 6.8
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Temporal Vector: E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:xorg-x11-server-Xephyr, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:xorg-x11-server-Xorg, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:xorg-x11-server-Xvfb, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:xorg-x11-server-common, 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: 11/11/2017
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2017-13723