NewStart CGSL CORE 5.05 / MAIN 5.05 : pango Vulnerability (NS-SA-2019-0232)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 132477

Synopsis

The remote machine is affected by a vulnerability.

Description

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version CORE 5.05 / MAIN 5.05, has pango packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability:

- Gnome Pango 1.42 and later is affected by: Buffer Overflow. The impact is: The heap based buffer overflow can be used to get code execution. The component is:
function name: pango_log2vis_get_embedding_levels, assignment of nchars and the loop condition. The attack vector is: Bug can be used when application pass invalid utf-8 strings to functions like pango_itemize.
(CVE-2019-1010238)

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

Solution

Upgrade the vulnerable CGSL pango packages. Note that updated packages may not be available yet. Please contact ZTE for more information.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 132477

File Name: newstart_cgsl_NS-SA-2019-0232_pango.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Family: NewStart CGSL Local Security Checks

Published: 12/31/2019

Updated: 4/2/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/27/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/19/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-1010238

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