SUSE SLES11 Security Update : liblouis (SUSE-SU-2019:13994-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 123552

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This update for liblouis and python-louis fixes the following issue :

Security issue fixed :

CVE-2018-17294: Fixed an out of bounds read in matchCurrentInput function which could allow a remote attacker to cause Denail of Service (bsc#1109319).

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.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch slessp4-liblouis-13994=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-liblouis-13994=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1109319

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-17294/

http://www.nessus.org/u?e5f53d4e

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 123552

File Name: suse_SU-2019-13994-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/1/2019

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:liblouis, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:liblouis0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-louis, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/29/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/21/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-17294