FreeBSD : lcms2 -- NULL pointer Dereference Denial of Service Vulnerability (9a0a892e-05d8-11e3-ba09-000c29784fd1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 69372

Synopsis

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

Description

Mageia security team reports :

It was discovered that Little CMS did not properly verify certain memory allocations. If a user or automated system using Little CMS were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could cause Little CMS to crash (CVE-2013-4160).

Solution

Update the affected package.

See Also

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2013-0240.html

https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10816

http://www.nessus.org/u?7e25dced

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 69372

File Name: freebsd_pkg_9a0a892e05d811e3ba09000c29784fd1.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Published: 8/16/2013

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:freebsd:freebsd:lcms2, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Patch Publication Date: 8/15/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/22/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4160