RHEL 7 : pango (RHSA-2019:2571)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 128407

Synopsis

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

Description

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

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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.

Pango is a library for laying out and rendering of text, with an emphasis on internationalization. Pango forms the core of text and font handling for the GTK+ widget toolkit.

Security Fix(es) :

* pango: pango_log2vis_get_embedding_levels() heap-based buffer overflow (CVE-2019-1010238)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2571

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-1010238

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 128407

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-2571.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/30/2019

Updated: 12/31/2019

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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:pango, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pango-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pango-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pango-tests, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, 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: 8/28/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/19/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-1010238

RHSA: 2019:2571