Debian DLA-1567-1 : gthumb security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 118735

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

CVE-2018-18718 - CWE-415: Double Free The product calls free() twice on the same memory address, potentially leading to modification of unexpected memory locations.

There is a suspected double-free bug with static void add_themes_from_dir() dlg-contact-sheet.c. This method involves two successive calls of g_free(buffer) (line 354 and 373), and is likely to cause double-free of the buffer. One possible fix could be directly assigning the buffer to NULL after the first call of g_free(buffer).
Thanks Tianjun Wu https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gthumb/issues/18

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 3:3.3.1-2.1+deb8u1

We recommend that you upgrade your gthumb 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://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gthumb/issues/18

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00002.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 118735

File Name: debian_DLA-1567.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/6/2018

Updated: 7/26/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-18718

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/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:gthumb-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gthumb-data, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gthumb, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gthumb-dbg

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/5/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-18718