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CentOS 9 : liblouis-3.16.1-5.el9

high Nessus Plugin ID 191309

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates for liblouis.

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the liblouis-3.16.1-5.el9 build changelog.

 - Buffer Overflow vulnerability found in Liblouis v.3.24.0 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via the lou_logFile function at logginc.c endpoint. (CVE-2023-26767)

 - Buffer Overflow vulnerability found in Liblouis v.3.24.0 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via the compileTranslationTable.c and lou_setDataPath functions. (CVE-2023-26768)

 - Buffer Overflow vulnerability found in Liblouis Lou_Trace v.3.24.0 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via the resolveSubtable function at compileTranslationTabel.c. (CVE-2023-26769)

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 CentOS 9 Stream liblouis package.

See Also

https://kojihub.stream.centos.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=32506

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 191309

File Name: centos9_liblouis-3_16_1-5.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/29/2024

Updated: 4/26/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-26769

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:centos:centos:9, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:liblouis, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:liblouis-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:liblouis-doc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:liblouis-utils, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3-louis

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/3/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/16/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-26767, CVE-2023-26768, CVE-2023-26769