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Amazon Linux 2 : hunspell (ALAS-2020-1518)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 141962

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.

Description

The version of tested product installed on the remote host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2020-1518 advisory.

 - Hunspell 1.7.0 has an invalid read operation in SuggestMgr::leftcommonsubstring in suggestmgr.cxx.
 (CVE-2019-16707)

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

Solution

Run 'yum update hunspell' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS-2020-1518.html

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-16707

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 141962

File Name: al2_ALAS-2020-1518.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/28/2020

Updated: 2/13/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, 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-2019-16707

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:amazon:linux:hunspell, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:hunspell-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:hunspell-devel, cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/22/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/23/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-16707

ALAS: 2020-1518