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Debian DLA-968-1 : libpodofo security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 100517

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Several heap-based buffer overflows and NULL pointer dereferences have been discovered in libpodofo, a library for manipulating PDF files, that allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or other unspecified impact via a crafted PDF document.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 0.9.0-1.1+deb7u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your libpodofo 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.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/05/msg00037.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/libpodofo

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 100517

File Name: debian_DLA-968.nasl

Version: 3.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/31/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

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 v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpodofo-utils, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpodofo0.9.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpodofo-dev

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/30/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-6840, CVE-2017-6842, CVE-2017-6843, CVE-2017-6847, CVE-2017-6848, CVE-2017-7378, CVE-2017-7380, CVE-2017-7381, CVE-2017-7382, CVE-2017-7383