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Debian DSA-2357-1 : evince - several vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 56999

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Synopsis

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

Description

Jon Larimer from IBM X-Force Advanced Research discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the DVI backend of the Evince document viewer :

 - CVE-2010-2640 Insufficient array bounds checks in the PK fonts parser could lead to function pointer overwrite, causing arbitrary code execution.

 - CVE-2010-2641 Insufficient array bounds checks in the VF fonts parser could lead to function pointer overwrite, causing arbitrary code execution.

 - CVE-2010-2642 Insufficient bounds checks in the AFM fonts parser when writing data to a memory buffer allocated on heap could lead to arbitrary memory overwrite and arbitrary code execution.

 - CVE-2010-2643 Insufficient check on an integer used as a size for memory allocation can lead to arbitrary write outside the allocated range and cause arbitrary code execution.

Solution

Upgrade the evince packages.

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 2.22.2-4~lenny2.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), CVE-2010-2640, CVE-2010-2641 and CVE-2010-2643 have been fixed in version 2.30.3-2 but the fix for CVE-2010-2642 was incomplete. The final fix is present in version 2.30.3-2+squeeze1.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=609534

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-2640

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-2641

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-2642

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-2643

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/evince

https://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2357

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 56999

File Name: debian_DSA-2357.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/5/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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: High

Base Score: 7.6

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:evince, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/3/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-2640, CVE-2010-2641, CVE-2010-2642, CVE-2010-2643

BID: 45678

DSA: 2357