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Debian DSA-2704-1 : mesa - out of bounds access

medium Nessus Plugin ID 66847

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Synopsis

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

Description

It was discovered that applications using the mesa library, a free implementation of the OpenGL API, may crash or execute arbitrary code due to an out of bounds memory access in the library. This vulnerability only affects systems with Intel chipsets.

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

Solution

Upgrade the mesa packages.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 8.0.5-4+deb7u2.

See Also

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/mesa

https://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2704

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 66847

File Name: debian_DSA-2704.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/10/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mesa, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/9/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-1872

BID: 60285

DSA: 2704