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Ubuntu 18.04 ESM : Leptonica vulnerability (USN-5143-1)
critical Nessus Plugin ID 183131
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Synopsis
The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.Description
The remote Ubuntu 18.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5143-1 advisory.It was discovered that Leptonica incorrectly handled certain image files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code or other unspecified impact.
Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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 affected leptonica-progs, liblept5 and / or libleptonica-dev packages.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Critical
ID: 183131
File Name: ubuntu_USN-5143-1.nasl
Version: 1.1
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Published: 10/16/2023
Updated: 8/27/2024
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: 5.9
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.5
Temporal Score: 5.5
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-7247
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Critical
Base Score: 9.8
Temporal Score: 8.5
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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:canonical:ubuntu_linux:leptonica-progs, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:esm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libleptonica-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:liblept5
Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 2/8/2022
Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/19/2018
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2018-7247
USN: 5143-1