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Debian DLA-878-1 : libytnef security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 99044

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

CVE-2017-6298 NULL pointer Deref / calloc return value not checked

CVE-2017-6299 Infinite Loop / DoS in the TNEFFillMapi function in lib/ytnef.c

CVE-2017-6300 Buffer Overflow in version field in lib/tnef-types.h

CVE-2017-6301 Out of Bounds Reads

CVE-2017-6302 Integer Overflow

CVE-2017-6303 Invalid Write and Integer Overflow

CVE-2017-6304 Out of Bounds read

CVE-2017-6305 Out of Bounds read and write

CVE-2017-6801 Out-of-bounds access with fields of Size 0 in TNEFParse() in libytnef

CVE-2017-6802 Heap-based buffer over-read on incoming Compressed RTF Streams, related to DecompressRTF() in libytnef

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 1.5-4+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libytnef 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 libytnef0, and libytnef0-dev packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/03/msg00036.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 99044

File Name: debian_DLA-878.nasl

Version: 3.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/30/2017

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: 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:libytnef0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libytnef0-dev, 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: 3/28/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-6298, CVE-2017-6299, CVE-2017-6300, CVE-2017-6301, CVE-2017-6302, CVE-2017-6303, CVE-2017-6304, CVE-2017-6305, CVE-2017-6801, CVE-2017-6802