Debian DLA-1297-1 : freexl security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 107105

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Leon reported five heap-based buffer-overflow vulnerabilities in FreeXL.

CVE-2018-7435

There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the freexl::destroy_cell function.

CVE-2018-7436

There is a heap-based buffer over-read in a pointer dereference of the parse_SST function.

CVE-2018-7437

There is a heap-based buffer over-read in a memcpy call of the parse_SST function.

CVE-2018-7438

There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the parse_unicode_string function.

CVE-2018-7439

There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the function read_mini_biff_next_record.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.0b-1+deb7u5.

We recommend that you upgrade your freexl 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.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 107105

File Name: debian_DLA-1297.nasl

Version: 3.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 3/2/2018

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/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: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libfreexl1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libfreexl-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libfreexl1-dbg, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/1/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/23/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-7435, CVE-2018-7436, CVE-2018-7437, CVE-2018-7438, CVE-2018-7439

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