Debian DLA-1248-1 : libgd2 security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 106175

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that there was a denial of service attack in the libgd2 image library. A corrupt file could have exploited a signedness confusion leading to an infinite loop.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', this issue has been fixed in libgd2 version 2.0.36~rc1~dfsg-6.1+deb7u11.

We recommend that you upgrade your libgd2 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/2018/01/msg00022.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/libgd2

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 106175

File Name: debian_DLA-1248.nasl

Version: 3.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/19/2018

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

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:libgd2-xpm, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgd-tools, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgd2-noxpm-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgd2-xpm-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgd2-noxpm

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/19/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-5711