Oracle Linux 8 : liblouis (ELSA-2020-1708)

high Nessus Plugin ID 180883

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2020-1708 advisory.

- Liblouis 3.5.0 has a stack-based Buffer Overflow in the function includeFile in compileTranslationTable.c.
(CVE-2018-11684)

- Liblouis 3.5.0 has a stack-based Buffer Overflow in the function compileHyphenation in compileTranslationTable.c. (CVE-2018-11685)

- Liblouis 3.6.0 has a stack-based Buffer Overflow in the function parseChars in compileTranslationTable.c, a different vulnerability than CVE-2018-11440. (CVE-2018-12085)

- Liblouis 3.5.0 has a Segmentation fault in lou_logPrint in logging.c. (CVE-2018-11577)

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 liblouis and / or python3-louis packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 180883

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2020-1708.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Oracle Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 9/7/2023

Updated: 9/7/2023

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-12085

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:liblouis, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python3-louis

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/5/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/31/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-11577, CVE-2018-11684, CVE-2018-11685, CVE-2018-12085

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