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CentOS 7 : advancecomp (CESA-2019:2332)

high Nessus Plugin ID 128391

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.

Description

An update for advancecomp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link (s) in the References section.

AdvanceCOMP is a set of recompression utilities for .PNG, .MNG and .ZIP files.

Security Fix(es) :

* advancecomp: NULL pointer dereference in function be_uint32_read() in endianrw.h (CVE-2019-8379)

* advancecomp: denial of service in function adv_png_unfilter_8 in lib/png.c (CVE-2019-8383)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes :

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

Update the affected advancecomp package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?527338a5

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 128391

File Name: centos_RHSA-2019-2332.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/30/2019

Updated: 4/30/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, 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-2019-8383

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: cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:advancecomp

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/CentOS/release, Host/CentOS/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/29/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/17/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-8379, CVE-2019-8383

RHSA: 2019:2332