EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.1.0 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2019-1495)

high Nessus Plugin ID 124818

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the version of the kernel packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

- The add_free_nid function in fs/f2fs/node.c in the Linux kernel, before 4.12, doe not properly track an allocated nid. This allows local users to cause a denial of service (race condition) or possibly have unspecified other impacts via concurrent threads.(CVE-2017-18249i1/4%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 kernel package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?6791a3be

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 124818

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2019-1495.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Published: 5/13/2019

Updated: 5/23/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-18249

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:kernel-tools-libs, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:python-perf, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:kernel-tools, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:kernel, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:uvp:3.0.1.0, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:perf, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:kernel-headers, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:kernel-tools-libs-devel

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: 5/9/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-18249