Debian DLA-1516-1 : okular security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 117643

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Joran Herve discovered that the Okular document viewer was susceptible to directory traversal via malformed .okular files (annotated document archives), which could result in the creation of arbitrary files.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 4:4.14.2-2+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your okular 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/2018/09/msg00027.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/okular

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 117643

File Name: debian_DLA-1516.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/24/2018

Updated: 8/6/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless 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: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-1000801

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:okular, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libokularcore5, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:okular-extra-backends, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:okular-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:okular-dbg

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: 9/23/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1000801