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CentOS 7 : liblouis (CESA-2017:3384)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 105061

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Synopsis

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

Description

An update for liblouis is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Liblouis is an open source braille translator and back-translator named in honor of Louis Braille. It features support for computer and literary braille, supports contracted and uncontracted translation for many languages and has support for hyphenation. New languages can easily be added through tables that support a rule or dictionary based approach. Liblouis also supports math braille (Nemeth and Marburg).

Security Fix(es) :

* A missing fix for one stack-based buffer overflow in findTable() for CVE-2014-8184 was discovered. An attacker could cause denial of service or potentially allow arbitrary code execution.
(CVE-2017-15101)

Red Hat would like to thank Samuel Thibault for reporting this issue.

Solution

Update the affected liblouis packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?53f2837f

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 105061

File Name: centos_RHSA-2017-3384.nasl

Version: 3.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/7/2017

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-15101

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:liblouis-doc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:liblouis-python, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:liblouis, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:liblouis-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:liblouis-utils

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/6/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/27/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-15101

RHSA: 2017:3384