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Fedora 30 : hunspell (2019-656f7ac8ca)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 131448

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

CVE-2019-16707 hunspell: out-of-bounds read in SuggestMgr::leftcommonsubstring

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected hunspell package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-656f7ac8ca

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 131448

File Name: fedora_2019-656f7ac8ca.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/3/2019

Updated: 4/9/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

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-2019-16707

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:fedoraproject:fedora:hunspell, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:30

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/28/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/23/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-16707