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GLSA-201701-14 : LZO: Multiple vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 96245

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Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201701-14 (LZO: Multiple vulnerabilities)

 LZO is vulnerable to an integer overflow condition in the “lzo1x_decompress_safe” function which could result in a possible buffer overrun when processing maliciously crafted compressed input data.
 Impact :

 A remote attacker could send specially crafted compressed input data possibly resulting in a Denial of Service condition or arbitrary code execution.
 Workaround :

 There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All LZO users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=dev-libs/lzo-2.08'

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-14

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 96245

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-201701-14.nasl

Version: 3.3

Type: local

Published: 1/3/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:lzo, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Patch Publication Date: 1/2/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/12/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-4607

GLSA: 201701-14