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RHEL 7 : hunspell (RHSA-2020:3971)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 143079

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:3971 advisory.

 Hunspell is a spell checker and morphological analyzer library and program designed for languages with rich morphology and complex word compounding or character encoding.

 Security Fix(es):

 * hunspell: out-of-bounds read in SuggestMgr::leftcommonsubstring in suggestmgr.cxx (CVE-2019-16707)

 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.

 Additional Changes:

 For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9 Release Notes linked from 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 hunspell package based on the guidance in RHSA-2020:3971.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?774c95af

http://www.nessus.org/u?dd3afe18

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:3971

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1771026

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 143079

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-3971.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/19/2020

Updated: 11/8/2024

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: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-16707

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:hunspell, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:hunspell-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: 9/23/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-16707

CWE: 125

RHSA: 2020:3971