RHEL 7 : libcroco (RHSA-2020:4072)

high Nessus Plugin ID 141052

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:4072 advisory.

The libcroco is a standalone Cascading Style Sheet level 2 (CSS2) parsing and manipulation library.

Security Fix(es):

* libcroco: Stack overflow in function cr_parser_parse_any_core in cr-parser.c (CVE-2020-12825)

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 libcroco package based on the guidance in RHSA-2020:4072.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?9977e3f2

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4072

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1835377

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 141052

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-4072.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/30/2020

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: 5.0

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-12825

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libcroco, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libcroco-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

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: 9/29/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/12/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-12825

CWE: 121

RHSA: 2020:4072