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Ubuntu 18.04 ESM : Leptonica vulnerability (USN-5143-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 183131

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5143-1 advisory.

 - An issue was discovered in pixHtmlViewer in prog/htmlviewer.c in Leptonica before 1.75.3. Unsanitized input (rootname) can overflow a buffer, leading potentially to arbitrary code execution or possibly unspecified other impact. (CVE-2018-7247)

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 affected leptonica-progs, liblept5 and / or libleptonica-dev packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5143-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 183131

File Name: ubuntu_USN-5143-1.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/16/2023

Updated: 10/16/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

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 Score Source: CVE-2018-7247

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: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:esm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:leptonica-progs, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:liblept5, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libleptonica-dev

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/8/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/19/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-7247

USN: 5143-1