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EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : dnsmasq (EulerOS-SA-2020-1378)

low Nessus Plugin ID 135507

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - A vulnerability was found in dnsmasq before version 2.81, where the memory leak allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via vectors involving DHCP response creation.(CVE-2019-14834)

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 dnsmasq package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?03beb252

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 135507

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2020-1378.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Published: 4/15/2020

Updated: 2/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-14834

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.7

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:dnsmasq, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:dnsmasq-utils, 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: 4/15/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-14834

IAVA: 2020-A-0194-S