Debian DLA-2702-1 : djvulibre - LTS security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 151369

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

The remote Debian 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dla-2702 advisory.

- An out-of-bounds write vulnerability was found in DjVuLibre in DJVU::DjVuTXT::decode() in DjVuText.cpp via a crafted djvu file which may lead to crash and segmentation fault. This flaw affects DjVuLibre versions prior to 3.5.28. (CVE-2021-3630)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade the djvulibre packages.

For Debian 9 stretch, this problem has been fixed in version 3.5.27.1-7+deb9u2.

See Also

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/djvulibre

https://www.debian.org/lts/security/2021/dla-2702

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-3630

https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/djvulibre

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 151369

File Name: debian_DLA-2702.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/4/2021

Updated: 1/21/2022

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-2021-3630

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:djvuserve, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libdjvulibre-text, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libdjvulibre-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:djview3, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libdjvulibre21, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:djvulibre-bin, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:djvulibre-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:djview, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:djvulibre-desktop

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/4/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/30/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3630