Debian DSA-998-1 : libextractor - several vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 22864

Synopsis

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

Description

Derek Noonburg has fixed several potential vulnerabilities in xpdf, which are also present in libextractor, a library to extract arbitrary meta-data from files.

Solution

Upgrade the libextractor package.

The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain libextractor packages.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 0.4.2-2sarge3.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-998

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 22864

File Name: debian_DSA-998.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/14/2006

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libextractor, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/14/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/1/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-0301

DSA: 998