Debian DLA-1176-1 : ming security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 104679

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Ming :

CVE-2017-9988

NULL pointer dereference in the readEncUInt30 function (util/read.c) in Ming <= 0.4.8, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

CVE-2017-9989

NULL pointer dereference in the outputABC_STRING_INFO function (util/outputtxt.c) in Ming <= 0.4.8, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

CVE-2017-11733

NULL pointer dereference in the stackswap function (util/decompile.c) in Ming <= 0.4.8, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 1:0.4.4-1.1+deb7u5.

We recommend that you upgrade your ming 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/2017/11/msg00022.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 104679

File Name: debian_DLA-1176.nasl

Version: 3.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/20/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, 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: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/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:ming-fonts-dejavu, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libming-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php5-ming, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libswf-perl, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libming1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libming-util, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-ming, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ming-fonts-opensymbol

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/18/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/28/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-11733, CVE-2017-9988, CVE-2017-9989