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EulerOS 2.0 SP1 : glibc (EulerOS-SA-2016-1073)

high Nessus Plugin ID 99833

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

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

 - A stack overflow vulnerability was found in
 _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r.On systems with nsswitch configured to include 'networks: dns' with a privileged or network-facing service that would attempt to resolve user-provided network names, an attacker could provide an excessively long network name, resulting in stack corruption and code execution.(CVE-2016-3075)

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 glibc package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?384a1aed

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 99833

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2016-1073.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Published: 5/1/2017

Updated: 12/22/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-3075

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:glibc-static, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:glibc-utils, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:glibc, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:nscd, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:glibc-common, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:glibc-headers, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:glibc-devel, 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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/3/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-3075