EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : libnl (EulerOS-SA-2019-2168)

high Nessus Plugin ID 130877

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

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

- An elevation of privilege vulnerability in libnl could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the Wi-Fi service.
This issue is rated as Moderate because it first requires compromising a privileged process and is mitigated by current platform configurations. Product:
Android. Versions: 5.0.2, 5.1.1, 6.0, 6.0.1, 7.0, 7.1.1. Android ID: A-32342065. NOTE: this issue also exists in the upstream libnl before 3.3.0 library.(CVE-2017-0553)

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 libnl package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?e10f9d17

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 130877

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2019-2168.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Published: 11/12/2019

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.6

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7

Temporal Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/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:libnl, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:libnl-devel, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/EulerOS/release, Host/EulerOS/rpm-list, Host/EulerOS/sp

Excluded KB Items: Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/28/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-0553