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Debian DLA-2112-1 : python-reportlab security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 133874

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was found that ReportLab, a Python library to create PDF documents, did not properly parse color strings, allowing an attacker to execute arbitrary code through a crafted input document.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 3.1.8-3+deb8u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your python-reportlab 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.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/02/msg00019.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/python-reportlab

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 133874

File Name: debian_DLA-2112.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/24/2020

Updated: 3/26/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, 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-2019-17626

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:python-renderpm, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-renderpm-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-reportlab, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-reportlab-accel, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-reportlab-accel-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-reportlab-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python3-renderpm, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python3-renderpm-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python3-reportlab, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python3-reportlab-accel, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python3-reportlab-accel-dbg, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0

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: 2/20/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/16/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-17626