RockyLinux 9 : liblouis (RLSA-2023:6385)

high Nessus Plugin ID 325253

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote RockyLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2023:6385 advisory.

* liblouis: buffer overflow in lou_logFile function at logginc.c (CVE-2023-26767)

* liblouis: buffer overflow in lou_setDataPath (CVE-2023-26768)

* liblouis: buffer overflow in Lou_Trace (CVE-2023-26769)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the RockyLinux security advisory.

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://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2181135

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2181139

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2181143

https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2023:6385

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 325253

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2023-6385.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 7/6/2026

Updated: 7/6/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

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:/o:rocky:linux:9, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:liblouis, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:liblouis-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:liblouis-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python3-louis

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/5/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/16/2023

Reference Information

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