Amazon Linux 2 : harfbuzz (ALAS-2024-2587)

high Nessus Plugin ID 202236

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.

Description

The version of harfbuzz installed on the remote host is prior to 1.7.5-2. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2024-2587 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)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product 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

Run 'yum update harfbuzz' to update your system.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 202236

File Name: al2_ALAS-2024-2587.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Amazon Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 7/12/2024

Updated: 7/12/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Nessus Agent, 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:amazon:linux:harfbuzz-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:harfbuzz-icu, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:harfbuzz-debuginfo, cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:harfbuzz

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/3/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/4/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-25193

Detections

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