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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.10 : TeX Live vulnerabilities (USN-6695-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 192119

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6695-1 advisory.

 - In axohelp.c before 1.3 in axohelp in axodraw2 before 2.1.1b, as distributed in TeXLive and other collections, sprintf is mishandled. (CVE-2019-18604)

 - LuaTeX before 1.17.0 allows a document (compiled with the default settings) to make arbitrary network requests. This occurs because full access to the socket library is permitted by default, as stated in the documentation. This also affects TeX Live before 2023 r66984 and MiKTeX before 23.5. (CVE-2023-32668)

 - texlive-bin commit c515e was discovered to contain heap buffer overflow via the function ttfLoadHDMX:ttfdump. This vulnerability allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via supplying a crafted TTF file. (CVE-2024-25262)

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://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6695-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 192119

File Name: ubuntu_USN-6695-1.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/14/2024

Updated: 3/14/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-18604

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:23.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libkpathsea-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libkpathsea6, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libptexenc-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libptexenc1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libsynctex-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libsynctex2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libtexlua-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libtexlua53, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libtexlua53-5, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libtexlua53-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libtexluajit-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libtexluajit2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:texlive-binaries, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:texlive-binaries-sse2

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/14/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/29/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-18604, CVE-2023-32668, CVE-2024-25262

USN: 6695-1