Debian DLA-675-1 : potrace security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 94293

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in potrace.

CVE-2013-7437

Multiple integer overflows in potrace 1.11 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via large dimensions in a BMP image, which triggers a buffer overflow. This bug was reported by Murray McAllister of the Red Hat Security Response Team.

CVE-2016-8694 CVE-2016-8695 CVE-2016-8696

Multiple NULL pointer dereferences in bm_readbody_bmp. This bug was discovered by Agostino Sarubbo of Gentoo.

CVE-2016-8697

Division by zero in bm_new. This bug was discovered by Agostino Sarubbo of Gentoo.

CVE-2016-8698 CVE-2016-8699 CVE-2016-8700 CVE-2016-8701 CVE-2016-8702 CVE-2016-8703

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in bm_readbody_bmp. This bug was discovered by Agostino Sarubbo of Gentoo.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 1.10-1+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your potrace 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.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 94293

File Name: debian_DLA-675.nasl

Version: 2.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 10/27/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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:libpotrace0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:potrace, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpotrace-dev

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/26/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-7437, CVE-2016-8694, CVE-2016-8695, CVE-2016-8696, CVE-2016-8697, CVE-2016-8698, CVE-2016-8699, CVE-2016-8700, CVE-2016-8701, CVE-2016-8702, CVE-2016-8703

BID: 73395

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