GNU indent 2.2.13 has a heap-based buffer overflow in search_brace in indent.c via a crafted file.

According to the versions of the indent package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - GNU indent 2.2.13 has a heap-based buffer overflow in search_brace in indent.c via a crafted file.
    (CVE-2023-40305)

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.

The version of indent installed on the remote host is prior to 2.2.11-13. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2023-2358 advisory.

  - GNU indent 2.2.13 has a heap-based buffer overflow in search_brace in indent.c via a crafted file.
    (CVE-2023-40305)

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

The remote Fedora 39 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-845edc1181 advisory.

    This release fixes a heap buffer overwrite in search_brace() (CVE-2023-40305) and a heap overread in     lexi().

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora 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 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-6389-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that Indent incorrectly handled parsing certain source files. If a user or automated     system were tricked into processing a specially crafted source file, a remote attacker could use this     issue to cause Indent to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

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.

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2023-318 advisory.

  - GNU indent 2.2.13 has a heap-based buffer overflow in search_brace in indent.c via a crafted file.
    (CVE-2023-40305)

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

The remote Fedora 38 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-b7f5059ee9 advisory.

    This release fixes a heap buffer overwrite in search_brace() (CVE-2023-40305) and a heap overread in     lexi().

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora 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 Fedora 37 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-67d8bcb63c advisory.

    This release fixes a heap buffer overwrite in search_brace() (CVE-2023-40305) and a heap overread in     lexi().

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora 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 SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:3432-1 advisory.

  - GNU indent 2.2.13 has a heap-based buffer overflow in search_brace in indent.c via a crafted file.
    (CVE-2023-40305)

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

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:3433-1 advisory.

  - GNU indent 2.2.13 has a heap-based buffer overflow in search_brace in indent.c via a crafted file.
    (CVE-2023-40305)

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
191853	EulerOS 2.0 SP8 : indent (EulerOS-SA-2024-1274)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
186578	Amazon Linux 2 : indent (ALAS-2023-2358)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
185260	Fedora 39 : indent (2023-845edc1181)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
181688	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 : Indent vulnerability (USN-6389-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
181134	Amazon Linux 2023 : indent (ALAS2023-2023-318)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
181012	Fedora 38 : indent (2023-b7f5059ee9)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
180593	Fedora 37 : indent (2023-67d8bcb63c)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
180317	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : indent (SUSE-SU-2023:3432-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
180306	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : indent (SUSE-SU-2023:3433-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium

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