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Fedora 33 : lout (2020-81c80ff1ed)

high Nessus Plugin ID 142205

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Add lout-3.40-cve.patch from https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/lout-users/2020-10/msg00013.html fixing rhbz#1787383 and rhbz#1787386 (CVE-2019-19918 and CVE-2019-19917), two buffer overflows.

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Solution

Update the affected lout package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-81c80ff1ed

https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/lout-users/2020-10/msg00013.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 142205

File Name: fedora_2020-81c80ff1ed.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/2/2020

Updated: 2/12/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-19918

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:lout, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:33

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: 10/31/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/20/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-19917, CVE-2019-19918