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Debian DSA-2178-1 : pango1.0 - NULL pointer dereference

medium Nessus Plugin ID 52512

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Synopsis

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

Description

It was discovered that Pango did not check for memory allocation failures, causing a NULL pointer dereference with an adjustable offset. This can lead to application crashes and potentially arbitrary code execution.

The oldstable distribution (lenny) is not affected by this problem.

Solution

Upgrade the pango1.0 packages.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.28.3-1+squeeze2.

See Also

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/pango1.0

https://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2178

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 52512

File Name: debian_DSA-2178.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/3/2011

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:pango1.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/2/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-0064

BID: 46632

DSA: 2178