EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : nettle (EulerOS-SA-2021-2512)

high Nessus Plugin ID 153720

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the versions of the nettle packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

- A flaw was found in the way nettle's RSA decryption functions handled specially crafted ciphertext. An attacker could use this flaw to provide a manipulated ciphertext leading to application crash and denial of service. (CVE-2021-3580)

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 nettle packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?7110a50a

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 153720

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2021-2512.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Published: 9/27/2021

Updated: 9/27/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3580

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:nettle, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:nettle-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: 9/27/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/5/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3580