NewStart CGSL MAIN 7.02 : elfutils Vulnerability (NS-SA-2025-0126)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 242834

Synopsis

The remote NewStart CGSL host is affected by a vulnerability.

Description

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version MAIN 7.02, has elfutils packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability:

- elfutils v0.189 was discovered to contain a NULL pointer dereference via the handle_verdef() function at readelf.c. (CVE-2024-25260)

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

Solution

Upgrade the vulnerable CGSL elfutils packages. Note that updated packages may not be available yet. Please contact ZTE for more information.

See Also

https://security.gd-linux.com/notice/NS-SA-2025-0126

https://security.gd-linux.com/info/CVE-2024-25260

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 242834

File Name: newstart_cgsl_NS-SA-2025-0126_elfutils.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 7/25/2025

Updated: 7/25/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-25260

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:elfutils-debuginfod-client, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:elfutils-debuginfod-client-devel, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:elfutils-devel, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:elfutils-libs, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:elfutils-default-yama-scope, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:elfutils-libelf, cpe:/o:zte:cgsl_main:7, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:elfutils-libelf-devel, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:elfutils

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/25/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/20/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-25260