An issue was discovered in uriparser before 0.9.6. It performs invalid free operations in uriNormalizeSyntax.

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

The version of uriparser installed on the remote host is prior to 0.7.5-10. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2023-2368 advisory.

    An issue was discovered in uriparser before 0.9.6. It performs invalid free operations in     uriNormalizeSyntax. (CVE-2021-46142)

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

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

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 20.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5256-2 advisory.

    USN-5256-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in uriparser. This update provides the corresponding update for     Ubuntu 14.04 ESM, Ubuntu 16.04 ESM and Ubuntu 20.04 ESM.



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

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

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5256-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that uriparser incorrectly handled certain memory operations. An attacker could use this     to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2021-46141, CVE-2021-46142)

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

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

The remote Debian 10 / 11 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-5063 advisory.

  - An issue was discovered in uriparser before 0.9.6. It performs invalid free operations in     uriFreeUriMembers and uriMakeOwner. (CVE-2021-46141)

  - An issue was discovered in uriparser before 0.9.6. It performs invalid free operations in     uriNormalizeSyntax. (CVE-2021-46142)

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

The version of FreeBSD installed on the remote host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the b927b654-7146-11ec-ad4b-5404a68ad561 advisory.

  - An issue was discovered in uriparser before 0.9.6. It performs invalid free operations in     uriFreeUriMembers and uriMakeOwner. (CVE-2021-46141)

  - An issue was discovered in uriparser before 0.9.6. It performs invalid free operations in     uriNormalizeSyntax. (CVE-2021-46142)

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
196170	RHEL 7 : uriparser (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
186571	Amazon Linux 2 : uriparser (ALAS-2023-2368)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
183589	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 20.04 ESM : uriparser vulnerabilities (USN-5256-2)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
163079	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : uriparser vulnerabilities (USN-5256-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
157257	Debian DSA-5063-1 : uriparser - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium
156565	FreeBSD : uriparser -- Multiple vulnerabilities (b927b654-7146-11ec-ad4b-5404a68ad561)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	medium

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