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EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.2.0 : less (EulerOS-SA-2020-1238)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 134527

Synopsis

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

Description

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

 - The is_utf8_well_formed function in GNU less before 475 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via malformed UTF-8 characters, which triggers an out-of-bounds read.(CVE-2014-9488)

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 less package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?521a7406

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 134527

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2020-1238.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Published: 3/13/2020

Updated: 3/22/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-9488

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:less, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:uvp:3.0.2.0

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: 3/13/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-9488

BID: 74159