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Fedora 38 : cairo / freetype / harfbuzz / qt6-qtwebengine (2023-a48406ecd2)

high Nessus Plugin ID 172506

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 38 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-a48406ecd2 advisory.

 - hb-ot-layout-gsubgpos.hh in HarfBuzz through 6.0.0 allows attackers to trigger O(n^2) growth via consecutive marks during the process of looking back for base glyphs when attaching marks.
 (CVE-2023-25193)

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-a48406ecd2

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 172506

File Name: fedora_2023-a48406ecd2.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/14/2023

Updated: 3/14/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-25193

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:38, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:cairo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:freetype, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:harfbuzz, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:qt6-qtwebengine

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/27/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/4/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-25193