Debian DLA-667-1 : libxv security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 94141

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Tobias Stoeckmann from the OpenBSD project has discovered a number of issues in the way various X client libraries handle the responses they receive from servers. Insufficient validation of data from the X server can cause out of boundary memory and memory corruption in the libxv library.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 2:1.0.7-1+deb7u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your libxv 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 libxv-dev, libxv1, and libxv1-dbg packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 94141

File Name: debian_DLA-667.nasl

Version: 2.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 10/20/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libxv-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libxv1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libxv1-dbg, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/19/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-5407

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