Debian DLA-1887-1 : freetype security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 127923

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

A buffer over-read in the t1-parser of freetype, a font engine, has been found and fixed by checking limits more sensible.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 2.5.2-3+deb8u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your freetype 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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 127923

File Name: debian_DLA-1887.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 8/20/2019

Updated: 5/2/2024

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-2015-9290

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: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libfreetype6-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:freetype2-demos, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libfreetype6-udeb, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libfreetype6

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: 8/15/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/30/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-9290

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