Debian DLA-2219-1 : feh security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 136835

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Tobias Stoeckmann discovered that it was possible to trigger an out-of-boundary heap write with the image viewer feh while receiving an IPC message.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 2.12-1+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your feh 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 feh package.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00021.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 136835

File Name: debian_DLA-2219.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/26/2020

Updated: 3/8/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-7875

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:feh, 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: 5/24/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/14/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-7875