An issue in the Leptonica linked library (v1.79.0) allows attackers to cause an arithmetic exception leading to a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted JPEG file.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 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.

  - leptonica: arithmetic exception leads to denial of service (CVE-2022-38266)

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 Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 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.

  - leptonica: arithmetic exception leads to denial of service (CVE-2022-38266)

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.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202312-01 (Leptonica: Multiple Vulnerabilities)

  - Leptonica 1.74.4 constructs unintended pathnames (containing duplicated path components) when operating on     files in /tmp subdirectories, which might allow local users to bypass intended file restrictions by     leveraging access to a directory located deeper within the /tmp directory tree, as demonstrated by     /tmp/ANY/PATH/ANY/PATH/input.tif. (CVE-2017-18196)

  - Leptonica before 1.75.3 does not limit the number of characters in a %s format argument to fscanf or     sscanf, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow) or     possibly have unspecified other impact via a long string, as demonstrated by the gplotRead and     ptaReadStream functions. (CVE-2018-7186)

  - An issue was discovered in pixHtmlViewer in prog/htmlviewer.c in Leptonica before 1.75.3. Unsanitized     input (rootname) can overflow a buffer, leading potentially to arbitrary code execution or possibly     unspecified other impact. (CVE-2018-7247)

  - An issue was discovered in Leptonica through 1.75.3. The gplotMakeOutput function allows command injection     via a $(command) approach in the gplot rootname argument. This issue exists because of an incomplete fix     for CVE-2018-3836. (CVE-2018-7440)

  - Leptonica through 1.75.3 uses hardcoded /tmp pathnames, which might allow local users to overwrite     arbitrary files or have unspecified other impact by creating files in advance or winning a race condition,     as demonstrated by /tmp/junk_split_image.ps in prog/splitimage2pdf.c. (CVE-2018-7441)

  - An issue was discovered in Leptonica through 1.75.3. The gplotMakeOutput function does not block '/'     characters in the gplot rootname argument, potentially leading to path traversal and arbitrary file     overwrite. (CVE-2018-7442)

  - An issue in the Leptonica linked library (v1.79.0) allows attackers to cause an arithmetic exception     leading to a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted JPEG file. (CVE-2022-38266)

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 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dla-3233 advisory.

  - An issue in the Leptonica linked library (v1.79.0) allows attackers to cause an arithmetic exception     leading to a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted JPEG file. (CVE-2022-38266)

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
199903	RHEL 8 : leptonica (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
199869	RHEL 9 : leptonica (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
196054	RHEL 8 : leptonica (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
196029	RHEL 9 : leptonica (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
187052	GLSA-202312-01 : Leptonica: Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	critical
168626	Debian DLA-3233-1 : leptonlib - LTS security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2022-38266

medium

Tenable Plugins

medium

medium

medium

medium

critical

medium