The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:3140 advisory.

    GNOME is the default desktop environment of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

    Security Fix(es):

    * libsoup: Crash in soup_cookie_jar.c:get_cookies() on empty hostnames (CVE-2018-12910)

    * poppler: Infinite recursion in fofi/FoFiType1C.cc:FoFiType1C::cvtGlyph() function allows denial of     service (CVE-2017-18267)

    * libgxps: heap based buffer over read in ft_font_face_hash function of gxps-fonts.c (CVE-2018-10733)

    * libgxps: Stack-based buffer overflow in calling glib in gxps_images_guess_content_type of gcontenttype.c     (CVE-2018-10767)

    * poppler: NULL pointer dereference in Annot.h:AnnotPath::getCoordsLength() allows for denial of service     via crafted PDF (CVE-2018-10768)

    * poppler: out of bounds read in pdfunite (CVE-2018-13988)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related     information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    Red Hat would like to thank chenyuan (NESA Lab) for reporting CVE-2018-10733 and CVE-2018-10767 and Hosein     Askari for reporting CVE-2018-13988.

    Additional Changes:

    For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Release Notes     linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

Detections

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RHEL 7 : GNOME (RHSA-2018:3140)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 118726

Version 1.10

Version 1.9

Version 1.8

Version 1.10 Nov 5, 2024, 12:50 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411051250
Version 1.9 Apr 28, 2024, 2:25 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Reference Plugin Feed: 202404281425
Version 1.8 Aug 15, 2023, 10:06 PM CVE (set "CVE" coverage to "CVE-2015-9381,CVE-2015-9382,CVE-2017-18267,CVE-2017-2862,CVE-2018-10733,CVE-2018-10767,CVE-2018-10768,CVE-2018-11712,CVE-2018-11713,CVE-2018-12910,CVE-2018-13988,CVE-2018-14036,CVE-2018-4121,CVE-2018-4200,CVE-2018-4204") Detection Plugin metadata Plugin requirements Plugin Feed: 202308152206