EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.2.2 : c-ares (EulerOS-SA-2020-1480)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 135642

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing multiple security updates.

Description

According to the versions of the c-ares package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

- Heap-based buffer overflow in the ares_create_query function in c-ares 1.x before 1.12.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a hostname with an escaped trailing dot.(CVE-2016-5180)

- The c-ares function `ares_parse_naptr_reply()`, which is used for parsing NAPTR responses, could be triggered to read memory outside of the given input buffer if the passed in DNS response packet was crafted in a particular way.(CVE-2017-1000381)

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 c-ares packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?be3609f1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 135642

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2020-1480.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Published: 4/16/2020

Updated: 3/15/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-5180

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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:c-ares, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:uvp:3.0.2.2

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: 4/16/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-5180, CVE-2017-1000381