In libgraphite2 in graphite2 1.3.11, a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability was found in Segment.cpp during a dumbRendering operation, which may allow attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted .ttf file.

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.

  - graphite2: NULL pointer dereference in Segment.cpp in libgraphite2 (CVE-2018-7999)

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

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5657-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that Graphite2 mishandled specially crafted files. An attacker could possibly use this     issue to cause a denial of service or other unspecified impact.

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

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

- New upstream 1.3.13 release

  - Move to python3 for tests

  - Fix CVE-2018-7999 (rhbz 1554383)

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.

According to the version of the graphite2 package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

  - In libgraphite2 in graphite2 1.3.11, a NULL pointer     dereference vulnerability was found in Segment.cpp     during a dumbRendering operation, which may allow     attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have     unspecified other impact via a crafted .ttf     file.(CVE-2018-7999)

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.

This update for graphite2 fixes the following issues :

  - CVE-2018-7999: Fixed a NULL pointer dereference     vulnerability in Segment.cpp that may cause a denial of     serivce (bsc#1084850).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12:Update update project.

This update for graphite2 fixes the following issues :

  - CVE-2018-7999: Fixed a NULL pointer dereference     vulnerability in Segment.cpp that may cause a denial of     serivce (bsc#1084850).

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
198898	RHEL 7 : graphite2 (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
165716	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : Graphite2 vulnerability (USN-5657-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
128626	Fedora 29 : graphite2 (2019-d0b1feb995)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
128570	Fedora 30 : graphite2 (2019-644ef7ebec)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
110748	EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : graphite2 (EulerOS-SA-2018-1172)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
109505	EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : graphite2 (EulerOS-SA-2018-1107)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
109504	EulerOS 2.0 SP1 : graphite2 (EulerOS-SA-2018-1106)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
108861	openSUSE Security Update : graphite2 (openSUSE-2018-337)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
108825	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : graphite2 (SUSE-SU-2018:0858-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high

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