SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : harfbuzz (SUSE-SU-2023:1852-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 174377

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:1852-1 advisory.

- hb-ot-layout-gsubgpos.hh in HarfBuzz through 6.0.0 allows attackers to trigger O(n^2) growth via consecutive marks during the process of looking back for base glyphs when attaching marks.
(CVE-2023-25193)

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 affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 174377

File Name: suse_SU-2023-1852-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 4/15/2023

Updated: 7/14/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-25193

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:harfbuzz-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libharfbuzz-gobject0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libharfbuzz-icu0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libharfbuzz-subset0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libharfbuzz0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libharfbuzz0-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-harfbuzz-0_0, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/14/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/4/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-25193

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:1852-1

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