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Oracle Linux 9 : harfbuzz (ELSA-2024-2410)

high Nessus Plugin ID 195086

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2024-2410 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 this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected harfbuzz, harfbuzz-devel and / or harfbuzz-icu packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2024-2410.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 195086

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2024-2410.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/6/2024

Updated: 5/6/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, 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:/a:oracle:linux:9:4:appstream_base, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:9::appstream, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:9, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:9:4:baseos_base, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:9::baseos_latest, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:harfbuzz, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:harfbuzz-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:harfbuzz-icu

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/2/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/4/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-25193