RHEL 8 : cairo and pixman (RHSA-2022:1961)

high Nessus Plugin ID 161039

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for cairo / pixman.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:1961 advisory.

Cairo is a 2D graphics library designed to provide high-quality display and print output.

Pixman is a pixel manipulation library for the X Window System and Cairo.

Security Fix(es):

* cairo: libreoffice slideshow aborts with stack smashing in cairo's composite_boxes (CVE-2020-35492)

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 8.6 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 cairo / pixman packages based on the guidance in RHSA-2022:1961.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 161039

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-1961.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 5/11/2022

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

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-2020-35492

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:redhat:enterprise_linux:cairo-gobject, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cairo-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cairo-gobject-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cairo

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/10/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/18/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-35492

CWE: 787

RHSA: 2022:1961

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