Debian DLA-1904-1 : libextractor security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 128424

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

jianglin found an issue in libextractor, a library that extracts meta-data from files of arbitrary type.

A crafted file could result in a heap-buffer-overflow vulnerability in function EXTRACTOR_dvi_extract_method in dvi_extractor.c.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 1:1.3-2+deb8u5.

We recommend that you upgrade your libextractor 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: Medium

ID: 128424

File Name: debian_DLA-1904.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 9/3/2019

Updated: 4/30/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-15531

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:extract, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libextractor-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libextractor-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libextractor3, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/30/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/23/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-15531

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