CentOS 7 : fribidi (CESA-2019:4326)

high Nessus Plugin ID 132405

Synopsis

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

Description

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

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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.

A library to handle bidirectional scripts (for example Hebrew, Arabic), so that the display is done in the proper way, while the text data itself is always written in logical order.

Security Fix(es) :

* fribidi: buffer overflow in fribidi_get_par_embedding_levels_ex() in lib/ fribidi-bidi.c leading to denial of service and possible code execution (CVE-2019-18397)

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.

Solution

Update the affected fribidi packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?987ca827

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 132405

File Name: centos_RHSA-2019-4326.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/27/2019

Updated: 12/31/2019

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: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-18397

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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:fribidi-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:fribidi

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/24/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/13/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-18397

RHSA: 2019:4326