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

  - Audit before 2.4.4 in Linux does not sanitize escape     characters in filenames.(CVE-2015-5186)

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.

This update fixes CVE-2015-5186. The issue is that ausearch/report did not escape terminal emulator sequences when interpreting untrusted data.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

This update for audit fixes the following issues :

Audit on SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP3 was updated to 2.8.1 to bring new features and bugfixes. (bsc#1125535 FATE#326346)

Many features were added to auparse_normalize

cli option added to auditd and audispd for setting config dir

In auditd, restore the umask after creating a log file

Option added to auditd for skipping email verification

The full changelog can be found here:
http://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/audit/ChangeLog Change openldap dependency to client only (bsc#1085003)

Minor security issue fixed: CVE-2015-5186: Audit: log terminal emulator escape sequences handling (bsc#941922)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version MAIN 6.06, has audit packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability:

  - Audit before 2.4.4 in Linux does not sanitize escape characters in filenames. (CVE-2015-5186)

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

This update for audit fixes the following issues :

Audit on SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP4 was updated to 2.8.1 to bring new features and bugfixes. (bsc#1125535 FATE#326346)

Many features were added to auparse_normalize

cli option added to auditd and audispd for setting config dir

In auditd, restore the umask after creating a log file

Option added to auditd for skipping email verification

The full changelog can be found here:
http://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/audit/ChangeLog Change openldap dependency to client only (bsc#1085003)

Minor security issue fixed: CVE-2015-5186: Audit: log terminal emulator escape sequences handling (bsc#941922)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - Audit before 2.4.4 in Linux does not sanitize escape characters in filenames. (CVE-2015-5186)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
132273	EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : audit (EulerOS-SA-2019-2556)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	12/19/2019	4/3/2024	medium
85559	Fedora 22 : audit-2.4.4-1.fc22 (2015-13526)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	8/20/2015	1/11/2021	medium
124694	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : audit (SUSE-SU-2019:1166-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	5/8/2019	5/28/2024	medium
266263	NewStart CGSL MAIN 6.06 : audit Vulnerability (NS-SA-2025-0234)	Nessus	NewStart CGSL Local Security Checks	9/30/2025	9/30/2025	medium
85557	Fedora 21 : audit-2.4.4-1.fc21 (2015-13471)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	8/20/2015	1/11/2021	medium
122666	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : audit (SUSE-SU-2019:0563-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	3/7/2019	6/14/2024	medium
131877	EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : audit (EulerOS-SA-2019-2385)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	12/10/2019	4/4/2024	medium
218867	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2015-5186	Nessus	Misc.	3/4/2025	9/3/2025	medium

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