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RHEL 7 : libwpd (RHSA-2019:2126)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 127677

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for libwpd.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2019:2126 advisory.

 libwpd is a library for reading and converting Corel WordPerfect Office documents.

 Security Fix(es):

 * libwpd: NULL pointer dereference in the function WP6ContentListener::defineTable in WP6ContentListener.cpp (CVE-2018-19208)

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

 Additional Changes:

 For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 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 this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL libwpd package based on the guidance in RHSA-2019:2126.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?b4c198a9

http://www.nessus.org/u?cc7115e8

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2126

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1649414

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 127677

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-2126.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/12/2019

Updated: 11/7/2024

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: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-19208

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libwpd-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libwpd-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libwpd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libwpd-doc

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/6/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/12/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-19208

CWE: 476

RHSA: 2019:2126