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Debian DLA-994-1 : zziplib security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 100939

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

CVE-2017-5974 Heap-based buffer overflow in the __zzip_get32 function in fetch.c in zziplib allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted ZIP file.

CVE-2017-5975 Heap-based buffer overflow in the __zzip_get64 function in fetch.c in zziplib allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted ZIP file.

CVE-2017-5976 Heap-based buffer overflow in the zzip_mem_entry_extra_block function in memdisk.c in zziplib allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted ZIP file.

CVE-2017-5978 The zzip_mem_entry_new function in memdisk.c in zziplib allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via a crafted ZIP file.

CVE-2017-5979 The prescan_entry function in fseeko.c in zziplib allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via a crafted ZIP file.

CVE-2017-5980 The zzip_mem_entry_new function in memdisk.c in zziplib allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via a crafted ZIP file.

CVE-2017-5981 seeko.c in zziplib allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and crash) via a crafted ZIP file.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 0.13.56-1.1+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your zziplib 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/2017/06/msg00023.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 100939

File Name: debian_DLA-994.nasl

Version: 3.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/21/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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:debian:debian_linux:libzzip-0-13, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:zziplib-bin, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libzzip-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: 6/20/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-5974, CVE-2017-5975, CVE-2017-5976, CVE-2017-5978, CVE-2017-5979, CVE-2017-5980, CVE-2017-5981