EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : util-linux (EulerOS-SA-2024-1167)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 190307

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

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

- An issue was discovered in hwclock.13-v2.27 allows attackers to gain escalated privlidges or execute arbitrary commands via the path parameter when setting the date. (CVE-2020-21583)

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 util-linux packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?597bd2f4

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 190307

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2024-1167.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Published: 2/8/2024

Updated: 2/8/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-21583

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.7

Temporal Score: 6

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:util-linux, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:libblkid-devel, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:libblkid, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:libmount, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:uuidd, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:libuuid-devel, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:libuuid, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/EulerOS/release, Host/EulerOS/rpm-list, Host/EulerOS/sp

Excluded KB Items: Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/8/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/22/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-21583