EulerOS 2.0 SP8 : pcre2 (EulerOS-SA-2020-1510)

high Nessus Plugin ID 135743

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the version of the pcre2 packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

- An out-of-bounds read was discovered in PCRE when the pattern '\X' is JIT compiled and used to match specially crafted subjects in non-UTF mode.
Applications that use PCRE to process untrusted input may be vulnerable to this flaw. An attacker could use this flaw to crash the application.(CVE-2019-20454)

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 pcre2 package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?9c6f9951

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 135743

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2020-1510.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Published: 4/20/2020

Updated: 3/15/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-20454

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:pcre2, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:pcre2-devel, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:pcre2-utf16, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:pcre2-utf32, 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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/20/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-20454