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Debian DLA-1597-1 : gnuplot security update
high Nessus Plugin ID 119266
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Synopsis
The remote Debian host is missing a security update.Description
gnuplot, a command-line driven interactive plotting program, has been examined with fuzzing by Tim Blazytko, Cornelius Aschermann, Sergej Schumilo and Nils Bars. They found various overflow cases which might lead to the execution of arbitrary code.Due to special toolchain hardening in Debian, CVE-2018-19492 is not security relevant, but it is a bug and the patch was applied for the sake of completeness. Probably some downstream project does not have the same toolchain settings.
For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version 4.6.6-2+deb8u1.
We recommend that you upgrade your gnuplot 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/2018/11/msg00035.html
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 119266
File Name: debian_DLA-1597.nasl
Version: 1.6
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Debian Local Security Checks
Published: 11/29/2018
Updated: 7/18/2024
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: Medium
Base Score: 6.8
Temporal Score: 5.3
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-19492
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.8
Temporal Score: 7
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gnuplot-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gnuplot, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gnuplot-tex, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gnuplot-x11, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gnuplot-data, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gnuplot-qt, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gnuplot-nox
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: 11/26/2018
Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/23/2018