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Debian DSA-2875-1 : cups-filters - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 72990

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Synopsis

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

Description

Florian Weimer of the Red Hat Product Security Team discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the pdftoopvp CUPS filter, which could result in the execution of aribitrary code if a malformed PDF file is processed.

Solution

Upgrade the cups-filters packages.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.18-2.1+deb7u1.

See Also

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/cups-filters

https://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2875

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 72990

File Name: debian_DSA-2875.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/14/2014

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: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/12/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-6474, CVE-2013-6475, CVE-2013-6476

DSA: 2875