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EulerOS Virtualization 2.5.2 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2018-1369)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 119060
Synopsis
The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing a security update.Description
According to the version of the kernel packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :- The timer_create syscall implementation in kernel/time/posix-timers.c in the Linux kernel doesn't properly validate the sigevent-i1/4zsigev_notify field, which leads to out-of-bounds access in the show_timer function.(CVE-2017-18344)
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 kernel package.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 119060
File Name: EulerOS_SA-2018-1369.nasl
Version: 1.9
Type: local
Family: Huawei Local Security Checks
Published: 11/21/2018
Updated: 4/8/2021
Supported Sensors: Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 6.6
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Low
Base Score: 2.1
Temporal Score: 1.8
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5.5
Temporal Score: 5.3
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:kernel, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:kernel-headers, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:kernel-tools, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:kernel-tools-libs, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:kernel-tools-libs-devel, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:uvp:2.5.2
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/EulerOS/release, Host/EulerOS/rpm-list, Host/EulerOS/uvp_version
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 11/4/2018
Exploitable With
CANVAS (CANVAS)
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2017-18344