EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.2.2 : numpy (EulerOS-SA-2023-1279)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 170795

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing a security update.

Description

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

- Null Pointer Dereference vulnerability exists in numpy.sort in NumPy < and 1.19 in the PyArray_DescrNew function due to missing return-value validation, which allows attackers to conduct DoS attacks by repetitively creating sort arrays. NOTE: While correct that validation is missing, an error can only occur due to an exhaustion of memory. If the user can exhaust memory, they are already privileged. Further, it should be practically impossible to construct an attack which can target the memory exhaustion to occur at exactly this place (CVE-2021-41495)

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 numpy packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?cbb98a22

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 170795

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2023-1279.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Published: 1/30/2023

Updated: 1/16/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.5

Temporal Score: 2.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-41495

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:numpy, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:numpy-f2py, 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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/30/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/17/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-41495