EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.2.2 : less (EulerOS-SA-2020-2212)

high Nessus Plugin ID 141676
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Synopsis

The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - An out of bound read, with a maximum of 5 bytes, was found in the way the is_utf8_well_formed() function parsed UTF-8 characters. If less was to be recompiled with an address sanitizer, a specially crafted input could crash less.(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?4b0a9ef7

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 141676

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2020-2212.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Published: 10/21/2020

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:less, 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: 10/21/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-9488

BID: 74159