RHEL 8 : pango (RHSA-2019:2582)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 128408

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2019:2582 advisory.

Pango is a library for laying out and rendering of text, with an emphasis on internationalization. Pango forms the core of text and font handling for the GTK+ widget toolkit.

Security Fix(es):

* pango: pango_log2vis_get_embedding_levels() heap-based buffer overflow (CVE-2019-1010238)

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.

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 pango package based on the guidance in RHSA-2019:2582.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 128408

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-2582.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 8/30/2019

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: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-1010238

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pango-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pango

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: 8/29/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/19/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-1010238

CWE: 119

RHSA: 2019:2582

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