EulerOS Virtualization 2.10.0 : elfutils (EulerOS-SA-2023-3466)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 188429

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing a security update.

Description

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

- In elfutils 0.183, an infinite loop was found in the function handle_symtab in readelf.c .Which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via crafted file. (CVE-2021-33294)

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 elfutils packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?ef9fc94b

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 188429

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2023-3466.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Published: 1/16/2024

Updated: 1/16/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-33294

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:elfutils, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:uvp:2.10.0

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: 12/21/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/18/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-33294