Debian DLA-2267-1 : libmatio security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 137910

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

In libmatio, a library to read and write Matlab MAT files, a vulnerability was fixed in Mat_VarReadNextInfo4 in mat4.c that could lead to a heap-based buffer over-read in strdup_vprintf.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 1.5.2-3+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libmatio 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: High

ID: 137910

File Name: debian_DLA-2267.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 7/1/2020

Updated: 3/5/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-17533

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.2

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libmatio2, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libmatio-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libmatio2-dbg, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libmatio-doc

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: 6/30/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/13/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-17533

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