RHEL 6 : pango (RHSA-2011:0309)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 52493

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for pango.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2011:0309 advisory.

- pango: missing memory reallocation failure checking in hb_buffer_ensure (CVE-2011-0064)

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 RHEL pango package based on the guidance in RHSA-2011:0309.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?9237ac52

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678563

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011:0309

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 52493

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2011-0309.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/2/2011

Updated: 4/21/2024

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

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-0064

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: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pango-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pango

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/1/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/7/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-0064

BID: 46632

RHSA: 2011:0309