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EulerOS Virtualization 2.5.2 : perl (EulerOS-SA-2019-1078)

high Nessus Plugin ID 122770

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - In Perl through 5.26.2, the Archive::Tar module allows remote attackers to bypass a directory-traversal protection mechanism, and overwrite arbitrary files, via an archive file containing a symlink and a regular file with the same name.(CVE-2018-12015)

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 perl package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?76bede6b

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 122770

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2019-1078.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Published: 3/12/2019

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:perl, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:perl-pod-escapes, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:perl-libs, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:perl-macros, 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 Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/1/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-12015