Oracle Linux 6 : pango (ELSA-2011-0309)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 68212

Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2011:0309 :

Updated pango packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having critical security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

Pango is a library used for the layout and rendering of internationalized text.

It was discovered that Pango did not check for memory reallocation failures in the hb_buffer_ensure() function. An attacker able to trigger a reallocation failure by passing sufficiently large input to an application using Pango could use this flaw to crash the application or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application. (CVE-2011-0064)

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla Security Team for reporting this issue.

All pango users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. After installing this update, you must restart your system or restart the X server for the update to take effect.

Solution

Update the affected pango packages.

See Also

https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/el-errata/2011-March/001958.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 68212

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2011-0309.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/12/2013

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:pango, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:pango-devel, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:6

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/3/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/7/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-0064

BID: 46632

RHSA: 2011:0309