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EulerOS 2.0 SP1 : libnl3 (EulerOS-SA-2016-1067)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 99829

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the version of the libnl3 packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

 - A race condition vulnerability was discovered in NetworkManager.Temporary files were created insecurely when saving or updating connection settings, which could allow local users to read connection secrets such as VPN passwords or WiFi keys. (CVE-2016-0764)

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 libnl3 package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?e00730c6

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 99829

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2016-1067.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Published: 5/1/2017

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

Temporal Score: 5.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:libnl3, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:libnl3-cli, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/EulerOS/release, Host/EulerOS/rpm-list, Host/EulerOS/sp

Excluded KB Items: Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Patch Publication Date: 11/3/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-0764