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Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for openssh (EulerOS-SA-2024-2511)

🗓️ 09 Oct 2024 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2024 Greenbone AGType 
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The Huawei EulerOS 'openssh' package is missing an update announced via the EulerOS-SA-2024-2511 advisory due to a race condition vulnerability in how signals are handled by OpenSSH's server, potentially leading to remote code execution (RCE) as an unprivileged user running the sshd server

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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.1.2.2024.2511");
  script_cve_id("CVE-2024-6409");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2024-10-09 04:31:34 +0000 (Wed, 09 Oct 2024)");
  script_version("2025-01-09T06:16:22+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-01-09 06:16:22 +0000 (Thu, 09 Jan 2025)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"6.6");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:C");
  script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H");
  script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
  script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2024-07-08 18:15:09 +0000 (Mon, 08 Jul 2024)");

  script_name("Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for openssh (EulerOS-SA-2024-2511)");
  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2024 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("Huawei EulerOS Local Security Checks");
  script_dependencies("gb_huawei_euleros_consolidation.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/euleros", "ssh/login/rpms", re:"ssh/login/release=EULEROS\-2\.0SP12");

  script_xref(name:"Advisory-ID", value:"EulerOS-SA-2024-2511");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://developer.huaweicloud.com/intl/en-us/euleros/securitydetail.html?secId=EulerOS-SA-2024-2511");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS 'openssh' package(s) announced via the EulerOS-SA-2024-2511 advisory.");

  script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable package version is present on the target host.");

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"A race condition vulnerability was discovered in how signals are handled by OpenSSH's server (sshd). If a remote attacker does not authenticate within a set time period, then sshd's SIGALRM handler is called asynchronously. However, this signal handler calls various functions that are not async-signal-safe, for example, syslog(). As a consequence of a successful attack, in the worst case scenario, an attacker may be able to perform a remote code execution (RCE) as an unprivileged user running the sshd server.(CVE-2024-6409)");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"'openssh' package(s) on Huawei EulerOS V2.0SP12.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Please install the updated package(s).");

  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");

  exit(0);
}

include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-rpm.inc");

release = rpm_get_ssh_release();
if(!release)
  exit(0);

res = "";
report = "";

if(release == "EULEROS-2.0SP12") {

  if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"openssh", rpm:"openssh~8.8p1~14.h21.eulerosv2r12", rls:"EULEROS-2.0SP12"))) {
    report += res;
  }

  if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"openssh-clients", rpm:"openssh-clients~8.8p1~14.h21.eulerosv2r12", rls:"EULEROS-2.0SP12"))) {
    report += res;
  }

  if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"openssh-server", rpm:"openssh-server~8.8p1~14.h21.eulerosv2r12", rls:"EULEROS-2.0SP12"))) {
    report += res;
  }

  if(report != "") {
    security_message(data:report);
  } else if(__pkg_match) {
    exit(99);
  }
  exit(0);
}

exit(0);

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