openSUSE Security Update : libwmf (openSUSE-2015-443)

high Nessus Plugin ID 84384

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

libwmf was updated to fix three security issues and one non-security bug.

The following vulnerabilities were fixed :

- CVE-2015-0848: An attacker that could trick a victim into opening a specially crafted WMF file with BMP portions in a libwmf based application could have executed arbitrary code with the user's privileges.
(boo#933109)

- CVE-2015-0848: An attacker that could trick a victim into opening a specially crafted WMF file in a libwmf based application could have executed arbitrary code through incorrect run-length encoding. (boo#933109)

- CVE-2009-1364: Use-after-free vulnerability in the embedded GD library in libwmf allowed context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted WMF file. (boo#495842, boo#831299)

The following non-security bug was fixed :

- boo#892356: Make libwmf-tools not depend on libwmf-devel

Solution

Update the affected libwmf packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 84384

File Name: openSUSE-2015-443.nasl

Version: 2.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 6/25/2015

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libwmf-0_2-7, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libwmf-0_2-7-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libwmf-0_2-7-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libwmf-0_2-7-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libwmf-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libwmf-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libwmf-gnome, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libwmf-gnome-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libwmf-gnome-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libwmf-gnome-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libwmf-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libwmf-tools-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.1

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 6/16/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-1364, CVE-2015-0848, CVE-2015-4588

CWE: 399

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