Debian DLA-1463-1 : sam2p security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 111651

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Various vulnerabilities leading to denial of service or possible unspecified other impacts were discovered in sam2p, an utility to convert raster images to EPS, PDF, and other formats.

CVE-2018-12578

A heap-buffer-overflow in bmp_compress1_row. Thanks to Peter Szabo for providing a fix.

CVE-2018-12601

A heap-buffer-overflow in function ReadImage, in file input-tga.ci.
Thanks to Peter Szabo for providing a fix.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version 0.49.2-3+deb8u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your sam2p 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 sam2p package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 111651

File Name: debian_DLA-1463.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 8/13/2018

Updated: 8/22/2024

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: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-12601

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:sam2p

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/10/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-12578, CVE-2018-12601

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