There is a NULL pointer dereference in the caseless_hash function in gxps-archive.c in libgxps 0.2.5. A crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service attack.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - libgxps: NULL pointer dereference in the caseless_hash function (CVE-2017-11590)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

This plugin has been deprecated as it does not adhere to established standards for this style of check.

According to the version of the libgxps package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

  - There is a NULL pointer dereference in the     caseless_hash function in gxps-archive.c in libgxps     0.2.5. A crafted input will lead to a remote denial of     service attack.(CVE-2017-11590)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Update to 0.3.0 upstream release

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

It was discovered that there was a NULL pointer dereference in libgxps, a library to handle XML Paper Specification specifications.

Specially crafted input could lead to a remote denial of service attack.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', this issue has been fixed in libgxps version 0.2.2-2+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libgxps packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
199767	RHEL 7 : libgxps (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
195382	RHEL 7 : libgxps (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
132141	EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : libgxps (EulerOS-SA-2019-2606)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
131908	EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : libgxps (EulerOS-SA-2019-2416)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
130876	EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : libgxps (EulerOS-SA-2019-2167)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
102450	Fedora 26 : libgxps (2017-0ca78fabc5)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
102439	Debian DLA-1054-1 : libgxps security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high

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