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Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : wxPythonGTK (MDKSA-2005:144)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 19901

Synopsis

The remote Mandrake Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Wouter Hanegraaff discovered that the TIFF library did not sufficiently validate the 'YCbCr subsampling' value in TIFF image headers. Decoding a malicious image with a zero value resulted in an arithmetic exception, which can cause a program that uses the TIFF library to crash.

wxPythonGTK uses an embedded libtiff source tree, and as such has the same vulnerability.

The updated packages have been rebuilt using the system libraries and should now incorporate all the updates to libjpeg, libpng, libtiff and zlib.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 19901

File Name: mandrake_MDKSA-2005-144.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Published: 10/5/2005

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64wxpythongtk2.5_2, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64wxpythongtk2.5_2-devel, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64wxpythongtk2.5_3, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64wxpythongtk2.5_3-devel, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libwxpythongtk2.5_2, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libwxpythongtk2.5_2-devel, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libwxpythongtk2.5_3, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libwxpythongtk2.5_3-devel, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:wxpythongtk, cpe:/o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:10.1, x-cpe:/o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:le2005

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/Mandrake/release, Host/Mandrake/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 8/18/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-2452

MDKSA: 2005:144