RHEL 7 : liblouis (RHSA-2017:3111)

high Nessus Plugin ID 104372

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

An update for liblouis is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Liblouis is an open source braille translator and back-translator named in honor of Louis Braille. It features support for computer and literary braille, supports contracted and uncontracted translation for many languages and has support for hyphenation. New languages can easily be added through tables that support a rule or dictionary based approach. Liblouis also supports math braille (Nemeth and Marburg).

Security Fix(es) :

* Multiple flaws were found in the processing of translation tables in liblouis. An attacker could crash or potentially execute arbitrary code using malicious translation tables. (CVE-2014-8184, CVE-2017-13738, CVE-2017-13740, CVE-2017-13741, CVE-2017-13742, CVE-2017-13743, CVE-2017-13744)

The CVE-2014-8184 issue was discovered by Raphael Sanchez Prudencio (Red Hat).

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3111

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2014-8184

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-13738

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-13740

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-13741

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-13742

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-13743

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-13744

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 104372

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2017-3111.nasl

Version: 3.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/3/2017

Updated: 10/24/2019

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:liblouis, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:liblouis-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:liblouis-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:liblouis-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:liblouis-python, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:liblouis-utils, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.4, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.5, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.6, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.7

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/2/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/29/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-8184, CVE-2017-13738, CVE-2017-13740, CVE-2017-13741, CVE-2017-13742, CVE-2017-13743, CVE-2017-13744

RHSA: 2017:3111