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RHEL 9 : harfbuzz (RHSA-2022:8384)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 167598

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:8384 advisory.

 HarfBuzz is an implementation of the OpenType Layout engine.

 Security Fix(es):

 * harfbuzz: integer overflow in the component hb-ot-shape-fallback.cc (CVE-2022-33068)

 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 9.1 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 harfbuzz package based on the guidance in RHSA-2022:8384.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?1f1eb6cc

http://www.nessus.org/u?86da0b7c

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:8384

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2102608

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 167598

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-8384.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/16/2022

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

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-2022-33068

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/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:harfbuzz-icu, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:harfbuzz-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:harfbuzz, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9

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: 11/15/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/23/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-33068

CWE: 190

RHSA: 2022:8384