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Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : Leptonica vulnerabilities (USN-4819-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 183556

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4819-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that Leptonica incorrectly handled path names. An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2017-18196)

 It was discovered that Leptonica incorrectly handled certain input arguments. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary commands. (CVE-2018-3836)

 It was discovered that Leptonica incorrectly handled input arguments. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or other unspecified impact. (CVE-2018-7186)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

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 leptonica-progs, liblept5 and / or libleptonica-dev packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4819-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 183556

File Name: ubuntu_USN-4819-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/20/2023

Updated: 8/27/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-7186

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:leptonica-progs, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:liblept5, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libleptonica-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:liblept4, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:esm

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/15/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/16/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-18196, CVE-2018-3836, CVE-2018-7186

USN: 4819-1