EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : texlive (EulerOS-SA-2021-1126)

high Nessus Plugin ID 145215

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the version of the texlive packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

- An issue was discovered in t1_check_unusual_charstring functions in writet1.c files in TeX Live before 2018-09-21. A buffer overflow in the handling of Type 1 fonts allows arbitrary code execution when a malicious font is loaded by one of the vulnerable tools:
pdflatex, pdftex, dvips, or luatex.(CVE-2018-17407)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected texlive package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?05f7b21b

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 145215

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2021-1126.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Published: 1/20/2021

Updated: 1/26/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-17407

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:texlive, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:texlive-base, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:texlive-kpathsea-lib, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/EulerOS/release, Host/EulerOS/rpm-list, Host/EulerOS/sp

Excluded KB Items: Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/18/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-17407