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Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 : 0118: brotli (ALINUX3-SA-2022:0118)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 236717

Synopsis

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALINUX3-SA-2022:0118 advisory.

 Package updates are available for Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 that fix the following vulnerabilities:

 CVE-2020-8927:
 A buffer overflow exists in the Brotli library versions prior to 1.0.8 where an attacker controlling the input length of a one-shot decompression request to a script can trigger a crash, which happens when copying over chunks of data larger than 2 GiB. It is recommended to update your Brotli library to 1.0.8 or later. If one cannot update, we recommend to use the streaming API as opposed to the one-shot API, and impose chunk size limits.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Alibaba Cloud Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://mirrors.aliyun.com/alinux/3/cve/alinux3-sa-20220118.xml

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 236717

File Name: alinux3_sa_2022-0118.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 5/14/2025

Updated: 5/14/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-8927

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Threat Score: 2.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:python3-brotli, cpe:/o:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:python3-brotli-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:brotli-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:brotli-devel, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:brotli-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:brotli

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/2/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/15/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-8927