SUSE SLES11 Security Update : liblouis (SUSE-SU-2017:2590-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 103564

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This update for liblouis fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed :

- CVE-2017-13739: Prevent heap-based buffer overflow in the function resolveSubtable() that could have caused DoS or remote code execution (bsc#1056101)

- CVE-2017-13740: Prevent stack-based buffer overflow in the function parseChars() that could have caused DoS or possibly unspecified other impact (bsc#1056097) ()

- CVE-2017-13741: Prevent use-after-free in function compileBrailleIndicator() that allowed to cause remote DoS (bsc#1056095)

- CVE_2017-13742: Prevent stack-based buffer overflow in function includeFile that allowed to cause remote DoS (bsc#1056093).

- CVE-2017-13743: Prevent buffer overflow triggered in the function _lou_showString() that allowed to cause remote DoS (bsc#1056090)

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.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch slessp4-liblouis-13291=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-liblouis-13291=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1056090

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1056093

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1056095

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1056097

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1056101

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-13739/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-13740/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-13741/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-13743/

http://www.nessus.org/u?04e59ea9

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 103564

File Name: suse_SU-2017-2590-1.nasl

Version: 3.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/29/2017

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:liblouis0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:liblouis, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-louis

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/28/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/29/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-13739, CVE-2017-13740, CVE-2017-13741, CVE-2017-13743