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Debian DLA-2055-1 : igraph security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 132592

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

An issue has been found in igraph, a library for creating and manipulating graphs. A NULL pointer dereference vulneribility was detected in igraph_i_strdiff().

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 0.7.1-2+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your igraph 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 libigraph0, and libigraph0-dev packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00038.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/igraph

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 132592

File Name: debian_DLA-2055.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/2/2020

Updated: 4/2/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-20349

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libigraph0-dev, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libigraph0

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: 12/31/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/22/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-20349