Debian DLA-859-1 : calibre security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 97796

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was found that a JavaScript present in the book can access files on the computer using XMLHttpRequest.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 0.8.51+dfsg1-0.1+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your calibre 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 calibre, and calibre-bin packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/03/msg00016.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/calibre

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 97796

File Name: debian_DLA-859.nasl

Version: 3.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/20/2017

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: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

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:H/I:N/A:N

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:calibre, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:calibre-bin, 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: 3/17/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-10187