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Debian DLA-389-1 : giflib security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 87957

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that a maliciously crafted GIF can crash the giffix utility which is part of giflib-tools.

We recommend that you upgrade your giflib-tools package to version 4.1.6-9+deb6u1 (Debian squeeze LTS).

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/2016/01/msg00013.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 87957

File Name: debian_DLA-389.nasl

Version: 2.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/18/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgif-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:giflib-tools, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:giflib-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgif4

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/15/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-7555