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GLSA-202301-06 : liblouis: Multiple Vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 169831

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Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202301-06 (liblouis: Multiple Vulnerabilities)

 - 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

All liblouis users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=dev-libs/liblouis-3.22.0

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202301-06

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=835093

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 169831

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-202301-06.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 1/11/2023

Updated: 9/8/2023

Supported Sensors: 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:gentoo:linux:liblouis, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/11/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/13/2022

Reference Information

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