Debian DLA-243-1 : libraw security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 84094

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

[This DLA supersedes my wrong announcement using DLA 241-1]

CVE-2015-3885: Integer overflow in the ljpeg_start function in dcraw 7.00 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted image, which triggers a buffer overflow, related to the len variable.

We recommend that you upgrade your libraw packages.

-- Matteo F. Vescovi || Debian Developer GnuPG KeyID:
4096R/0x8062398983B2CF7A

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected libraw-dev, and libraw-doc packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 84094

File Name: debian_DLA-243.nasl

Version: 2.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 6/11/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libraw-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libraw-doc

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/10/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-3885

BID: 74590

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