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Debian DSA-5239-1 : gdal - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 165512

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Debian 11 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dsa-5239 advisory.

 A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered in gdal, a Geospatial Data Abstraction Library, which could result in denial of service or potentially the execution of arbitrary code, if a specially crafted file is processed with the PCIDSK driver. For the stable distribution (bullseye), this problem has been fixed in version 3.2.2+dfsg-2+deb11u2. We recommend that you upgrade your gdal packages. For the detailed security status of gdal please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security- tracker.debian.org/tracker/gdal

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Debian security advisory.

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 gdal packages.

For the stable distribution (bullseye), this problem has been fixed in version 3.2.2+dfsg-2+deb11u2.

See Also

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

https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5239

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-45943

https://packages.debian.org/source/bullseye/gdal

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 165512

File Name: debian_DSA-5239.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/28/2022

Updated: 1/24/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-45943

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:11.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gdal-data, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgdal-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gdal-bin, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgdal28, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgdal-perl-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgdal-perl, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python3-gdal

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: 9/27/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/1/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-45943