Debian DLA-2663-1 : libimage-exiftool-perl security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 149515

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

A vulnerability was discovered in libimage-exiftool-perl, a library and program to read and write meta information in multimedia files, which may result in execution of arbitrary code if a malformed DjVu file is processed.

For Debian 9 stretch, this problem has been fixed in version 10.40-1+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libimage-exiftool-perl packages.

For the detailed security status of libimage-exiftool-perl please refer to its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/libimage-exiftool-perl

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 libimage-exiftool-perl package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 149515

File Name: debian_DLA-2663.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 5/17/2021

Updated: 7/25/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-22204

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libimage-exiftool-perl, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0

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: 5/16/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/23/2021

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 12/1/2021

Exploitable With

Metasploit (ExifTool DjVu ANT Perl injection)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-22204

Detections

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