Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 : 0076: libyang (ALINUX3-SA-2022:0076)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 236734

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 multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALINUX3-SA-2022:0076 advisory.

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

CVE-2019-19333:
In all versions of libyang before 1.0-r5, a stack-based buffer overflow was discovered in the way libyang parses YANG files with a leaf of type bits. An application that uses libyang to parse untrusted YANG files may be vulnerable to this flaw, which would allow an attacker to cause a denial of service or possibly gain code execution.

CVE-2019-19334:
In all versions of libyang before 1.0-r5, a stack-based buffer overflow was discovered in the way libyang parses YANG files with a leaf of type identityref. An application that uses libyang to parse untrusted YANG files may be vulnerable to this flaw, which would allow an attacker to cause a denial of service or possibly gain code execution.

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

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 236734

File Name: alinux3_sa_2022-0076.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Family: Alibaba Cloud Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 5/14/2025

Updated: 5/14/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-19334

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:python3-libyang-debuginfo, cpe:/o:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:libyang-cpp-devel, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:libyang-cpp, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:libyang, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:libyang-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:libyang-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:libyang-devel, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:libyang-cpp-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:libyang-devel-doc, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:python3-libyang

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: 11/6/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/6/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-19333, CVE-2019-19334

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