RHEL 7 : libwpd (RHSA-2019:2126)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 127677

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for libwpd.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2019:2126 advisory.

- libwpd: NULL pointer dereference in the function WP6ContentListener::defineTable in WP6ContentListener.cpp (CVE-2018-19208)

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

Solution

Update the RHEL libwpd package based on the guidance in RHSA-2019:2126.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2126

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low

http://www.nessus.org/u?cc7115e8

http://www.nessus.org/u?9578fa25

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1649414

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 127677

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-2126.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/12/2019

Updated: 4/28/2024

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: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-19208

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libwpd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libwpd-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libwpd-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libwpd-tools, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux: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: 8/6/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/12/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-19208

CWE: 476

RHSA: 2019:2126