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EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : libX11 (EulerOS-SA-2021-1323)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 146664

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the version of the libX11 packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

 - An integer overflow leading to a heap-buffer overflow was found in The X Input Method (XIM) client was implemented in libX11 before version 1.6.10. As per upstream this is security relevant when setuid programs call XIM client functions while running with elevated privileges. No such programs are shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.(CVE-2020-14344)

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 libX11 package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?31e32e5b

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 146664

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2021-1323.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Published: 2/22/2021

Updated: 1/19/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-14344

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.7

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/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:libx11, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:libx11-common, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:libx11-devel, 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: 2/19/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-14344