EulerOS Virtualization 2.5.3 : cyrus-sasl (EulerOS-SA-2019-1173)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 123859

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Synopsis

The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing a security update.

Description

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

- Cyrus SASL 2.1.23, 2.1.26, and earlier does not properly handle when a NULL value is returned upon an error by the crypt function as implemented in glibc 2.17 and later, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (thread crash and consumption) via (1) an invalid salt or, when FIPS-140 is enabled, a (2) DES or (3) MD5 encrypted password, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.i1/4^CVE-2013-4122i1/4%0

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 cyrus-sasl package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 123859

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2019-1173.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Family: Huawei Local Security Checks

Published: 4/9/2019

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:cyrus-sasl, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:cyrus-sasl-gssapi, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:cyrus-sasl-lib, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:cyrus-sasl-md5, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:cyrus-sasl-plain, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:uvp:2.5.3

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: 4/2/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4122

BID: 61164

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