EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.6.0 : less (EulerOS-SA-2020-1770)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 137989
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Synopsis

The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing multiple security updates.

Description

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

 - 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.(backport-less-CVE-2014-9488-utf8-overflow.patch)

 - 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 packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?5a895f52

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 137989

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2020-1770.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Published: 7/1/2020

Updated: 1/6/2021

Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl

Risk Information

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-9488

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

Temporal Vector: E:U/RL:OF/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:less, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:uvp:3.0.6.0

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: 6/30/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-9488

BID: 74159