An error within the "tar_directory_for_file()" function (gsf-infile-tar.c) in GNOME Structured File Library before 1.14.41 can be exploited to trigger a Null pointer dereference and subsequently cause a crash via a crafted TAR file.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - libgsf: Null pointer dereference in tar_directory_for_file() (CVE-2016-9888)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - libgsf: Null pointer dereference in tar_directory_for_file() (CVE-2016-9888)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - libgsf: Null pointer dereference in tar_directory_for_file() (CVE-2016-9888)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

It was discovered that there was a NULL pointer deference exploit in libgsf, a I/O abstraction library for GNOME.

An error within the 'tar_directory_for_file()' function could be exploited to trigger a NULL pointer dereference and subsequently cause a crash via a crafted TAR file.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 1.14.30-2+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libgsf packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

According to the version of the libgsf package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

  - An error within the 'tar_directory_for_file()' function     (gsf-infile-tar.c) in GNOME Structured File Library     before 1.14.41 can be exploited to trigger a Null     pointer dereference and subsequently cause a crash via     a crafted TAR file.(CVE-2016-9888)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Security fix for CVE-2016-9888

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

- Security fix for CVE-2016-9888

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

It was discovered that there was a NULL pointer deference exploit in libgsf, a I/O abstraction library for GNOME.

An error within the 'tar_directory_for_file()' function could be exploited to trigger a NULL pointer dereference and subsequently cause a crash via a crafted TAR file.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', this issue has been fixed in libgsf version 1.14.21-2.1+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libgsf packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
198985	RHEL 7 : libgsf (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
198964	RHEL 5 : libgsf (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
198880	RHEL 6 : libgsf (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
135975	Debian DLA-2183-1 : libgsf security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium
131855	EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : libgsf (EulerOS-SA-2019-2363)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
130875	EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : libgsf (EulerOS-SA-2019-2166)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
130702	EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : libgsf (EulerOS-SA-2019-2240)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
96571	Fedora 25 : mingw-libgsf (2017-21edf966b0)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
95901	Fedora 24 : libgsf (2016-4871c26b3c)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
95677	Fedora 25 : libgsf (2016-6ba1694d89)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
95665	Debian DLA-740-1 : libgsf security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium

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