SUSE SLES15 Security Update : liblouis (SUSE-SU-2022:2252-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 162709

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:2252-1 advisory.

- Liblouis through 3.21.0 has a buffer overflow in compilePassOpcode in compileTranslationTable.c (called, indirectly, by tools/lou_checktable.c). (CVE-2022-26981)

- Liblouis 3.21.0 has an out-of-bounds write in compileRule in compileTranslationTable.c, as demonstrated by lou_trace. (CVE-2022-31783)

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 liblouis-data, liblouis-devel, liblouis14 and / or python3-louis packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 162709

File Name: suse_SU-2022-2252-1.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 7/5/2022

Updated: 7/13/2023

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: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-26981

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: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:liblouis-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:liblouis14, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python3-louis, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:liblouis-data, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/4/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/13/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-26981, CVE-2022-31783

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:2252-1

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