Debian DLA-257-1 : libwmf security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 84435

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

libwmf is vulnerable to two denial of service due to invalid read operations when processing specially crafted WMF files.

CVE-2015-4695

Heap buffer overread in libwmf

CVE-2015-4696

Read after free() in wmf2gd/wmf2eps

For the squeeze distribution, those issues have been fixed in libwmf 0.2.8.4-6.2+deb6u2. We recommend that you upgrade your libwmf packages.

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 packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2015/06/msg00024.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze-lts/libwmf

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 84435

File Name: debian_DLA-257.nasl

Version: 2.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/29/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libwmf-bin, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libwmf-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libwmf-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libwmf0.2-7, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/29/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-4695, CVE-2015-4696

BID: 75329, 75331