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Debian DSA-5484-1 : librsvg - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 180206

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Debian 11 / 12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dsa-5484 advisory.

 Zac Sims discovered a directory traversal in the URL decoder of librsvg, a SAX-based renderer library for SVG files, which could result in read of arbitrary files when processing a specially crafted SVG file with an XInclude element. For the oldstable distribution (bullseye), this problem has been fixed in version 2.50.3+dfsg-1+deb11u1. For the stable distribution (bookworm), this problem has been fixed in version 2.54.7+dfsg-1~deb12u1. We recommend that you upgrade your librsvg packages. For the detailed security status of librsvg please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security- tracker.debian.org/tracker/librsvg

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 librsvg packages.

For the stable distribution (bookworm), this problem has been fixed in version 2.54.7+dfsg-1~deb12u1.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1041810

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

https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5484

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-38633

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

https://packages.debian.org/source/bookworm/librsvg

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 180206

File Name: debian_DSA-5484.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/27/2023

Updated: 1/24/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-38633

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:librsvg2-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:librsvg2-2, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:11.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:librsvg2-bin, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:librsvg2-common, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:librsvg2-tests, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gir1.2-rsvg-2.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:librsvg2-doc, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:12.0

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: 8/27/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/22/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-38633