CentOS 7 : freetype (RHSA-2020:4907)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 142598

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:4907 advisory.

- Heap buffer overflow in Freetype in Google Chrome prior to 86.0.4240.111 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (CVE-2020-15999)

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 affected freetype, freetype-demos and / or freetype-devel packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 142598

File Name: centos_RHSA-2020-4907.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: CentOS Local Security Checks

Published: 11/6/2020

Updated: 2/6/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 10.0

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-15999

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.6

Temporal Score: 9.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:freetype-demos, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:freetype, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:freetype-devel

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/6/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/20/2020

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 11/17/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-15999

RHSA: 2020:4907

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