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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : FriBidi vulnerabilities (USN-5366-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 159589

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5366-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that FriBidi incorrectly handled processing of input strings resulting in memory corruption. An attacker could use this issue to cause FriBidi to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or potentially execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-25308)

 It was discovered that FriBidi incorrectly validated input data to its CapRTL unicode encoder, resulting in memory corruption. An attacker could use this issue to cause FriBidi to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or potentially execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-25309)

 It was discovered that FriBidi incorrectly handled empty input when removing marks from unicode strings, resulting in a crash. An attacker could use this to cause FriBidi to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or potentially

 execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-25310)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected libfribidi-bin, libfribidi-dev and / or libfribidi0 packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5366-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 159589

File Name: ubuntu_USN-5366-1.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/7/2022

Updated: 8/28/2024

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: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-25308

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: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libfribidi0, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libfribidi-bin, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libfribidi-dev

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/7/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/1/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-25308, CVE-2022-25309, CVE-2022-25310

USN: 5366-1