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Debian DLA-2183-1 : libgsf security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 135975

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that there was a NULL pointer deference exploit in libgsf, a I/O abstraction library for GNOME.

An error within the 'tar_directory_for_file()' function could be exploited to trigger a NULL pointer dereference and subsequently cause a crash via a crafted TAR file.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 1.14.30-2+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libgsf 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/2020/04/msg00016.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 135975

File Name: debian_DLA-2183.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/27/2020

Updated: 3/14/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, 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-2016-9888

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/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:libgsf-1-common, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gir1.2-gsf-1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgsf-1-114, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgsf-1-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgsf-bin, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgsf-1-114-dbg

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/25/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/8/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-9888