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Debian DSA-4303-1 : okular - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 117676

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related 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.

Solution

Upgrade the okular packages.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 4:16.08.2-1+deb9u1.

See Also

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/okular

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

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4303

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 117676

File Name: debian_DSA-4303.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/25/2018

Updated: 8/5/2024

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, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0

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

DSA: 4303