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EulerOS 2.0 SP8 : grub2 (EulerOS-SA-2020-1009)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 132602

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the version of the grub2 packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

 - A flaw was found in the grub2-set-bootflag utility of grub2. A local attacker could run this utility under resource pressure (for example by setting RLIMIT), causing grub2 configuration files to be truncated and leaving the system unbootable on subsequent reboots.(CVE-2019-14865)

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 grub2 package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?2aa44c02

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 132602

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2020-1009.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Published: 1/2/2020

Updated: 4/30/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-14865

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/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:grub2-tools, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:grub2-efi-aa64, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:grub2-efi-aa64-modules, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:grub2-tools-extra, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:grub2-tools-minimal, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:grub2-common, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:grub2-efi-aa64-cdboot, 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: 1/2/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-14865