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Debian DLA-890-1 : ming security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 99268

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that there were multiple heap-based buffer overflows in ming, a library to generate SWF (Flash) files.

The updated packages prevent a crash in the 'listswf' utility due to a heap-based buffer overflow in the parseSWF_RGBA function and several other functions in parser.c.

AddressSanitizer flagged them as invalid writes 'of size 1' but the heap could be written to multiple times. The overflows are caused by a pointer behind the bounds of a statically allocated array of structs of type SWF_GRADIENTRECORD.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', this issue has been fixed in ming version 1:0.4.4-1.1+deb7u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your ming 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.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/04/msg00009.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 99268

File Name: debian_DLA-890.nasl

Version: 3.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/11/2017

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:ming-fonts-dejavu, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libming-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php5-ming, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libswf-perl, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libming1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libming-util, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-ming, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ming-fonts-opensymbol

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/10/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-7578