A flaw was found in indent, a program for formatting C code. This issue may allow an attacker to trick a user into processing a specially crafted file to trigger a heap-based buffer overflow, causing the application to crash.

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

  - A flaw was found in indent, a program for formatting C code. This issue may allow an attacker to trick a     user into processing a specially crafted file to trigger a heap-based buffer overflow, causing the     application to crash. (CVE-2024-0911)

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

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

    A flaw was found in indent, a program for formatting C code. This issue may allow an attacker to trick a     user into processing a specially crafted file to trigger a heap-based buffer overflow, causing the     application to crash.(CVE-2024-0911)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS indent security advisory.

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

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:1134-1 advisory.

  - A flaw was found in indent, a program for formatting C code. This issue may allow an attacker to trick a     user into processing a specially crafted file to trigger a heap-based buffer overflow, causing the     application to crash. (CVE-2024-0911)

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

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:0965-1 advisory.

  - A flaw was found in indent, a program for formatting C code. This issue may allow an attacker to trick a     user into processing a specially crafted file to trigger a heap-based buffer overflow, causing the     application to crash. (CVE-2024-0911)

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

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2024-504 advisory.

    A flaw was found in Indent. This issue may allow a local user to use a specially-crafted file to trigger a     heap-based buffer overflow, which can lead to an application crash. (CVE-2024-0911)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

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

The version of indent installed on the remote host is prior to 2.2.11-13. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2024-2439 advisory.

    A flaw was found in Indent. This issue may allow a local user to use a specially-crafted file to trigger a     heap-based buffer overflow, which can lead to an application crash. (CVE-2024-0911)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

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

The remote Fedora 39 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-bfd13103eb advisory.

    This release fixes a heap buffer underread in indent tool when processing a code in which an opening     parenthesis follows a comment with a text.


Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

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

The remote Fedora 38 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-74667e499e advisory.

    This release fixes a heap buffer underread in indent tool when processing a code in which an opening     parenthesis follows a comment with a text.


Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
255562	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-0911	Nessus	Misc.	medium
207635	EulerOS 2.0 SP8 : indent (EulerOS-SA-2024-2474)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
202954	EulerOS 2.0 SP8 : indent (EulerOS-SA-2024-2036)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
193052	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : indent (SUSE-SU-2024:1134-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
192507	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : indent (SUSE-SU-2024:0965-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
190081	Amazon Linux 2023 : indent (ALAS2023-2024-504)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
190024	Amazon Linux 2 : indent (ALAS-2024-2439)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
189940	Fedora 39 : indent (2024-bfd13103eb)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
189938	Fedora 38 : indent (2024-74667e499e)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium

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