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EulerOS 2.0 SP11 : coreutils (EulerOS-SA-2025-1948)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 249184

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 A flaw was found in GNU Coreutils. The sort utility's begfield() function is vulnerable to a heap buffer under-read. The program may access memory outside the allocated buffer if a user runs a crafted command using the traditional key format. A malicious input could lead to a crash or leak sensitive data.(CVE-2025-5278)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS coreutils 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 coreutils packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?6fee9751

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 249184

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2025-1948.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 8/13/2025

Updated: 8/13/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.6

Temporal Score: 2.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-5278

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:coreutils, 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 Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/9/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/27/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-5278