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EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.1.0 : util-linux (EulerOS-SA-2019-1462)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 124965

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - A race condition was found in the way su handled the management of child processes. A local authenticated attacker could use this flaw to kill other processes with root privileges under specific conditions.(CVE-2017-2616)

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 util-linux package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?3aeedfc5

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 124965

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2019-1462.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Published: 5/14/2019

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 3.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:libblkid, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:libmount, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:libuuid, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:util-linux, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:uvp:3.0.1.0

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: 5/7/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-2616