Debian DLA-1306-1 : vips security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 107278

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that there was NULL function pointer dereference vulnerability in vips, an image processing system for very large images.

Remote attackers could cause a denial of service via a specially crafted image file which occurred due to a race condition involving a failed image load and other worker threads.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', this issue has been fixed in vips version 7.28.5-1+deb7u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your vips 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: 107278

File Name: debian_DLA-1306.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 3/12/2018

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libvips-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libvips-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libvips-tools, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-vipscc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libvips15

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/11/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-7998

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