EulerOS Virtualization 2.11.0 : pam (EulerOS-SA-2024-1633)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 197123

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing a security update.

Description

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

- linux-pam (aka Linux PAM) before 1.6.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (blocked login process) via mkfifo because the openat call (for protect_dir) lacks O_DIRECTORY. (CVE-2024-22365)

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 pam packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?4c8f0daf

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 197123

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2024-1633.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Published: 5/15/2024

Updated: 5/15/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-22365

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/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:pam, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:uvp:2.11.0

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: 5/15/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/1/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-22365