Debian DLA-2019-1 : exiv2 security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 131437

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

A corrupted or specially crafted CRW images might exceed the overall buffersize to cause a denial of service.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 0.24-4.1+deb8u5.

We recommend that you upgrade your exiv2 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: 131437

File Name: debian_DLA-2019.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 12/3/2019

Updated: 4/9/2024

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-2019-17402

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:exiv2, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libexiv2-13, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libexiv2-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libexiv2-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libexiv2-doc, 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: 12/2/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/9/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-17402

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