Debian DLA-927-1 : fop security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 99738

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

In Apache FOP before 2.2, files lying on the filesystem of the server which uses FOP can be revealed to arbitrary users who send maliciously formed SVG files. The file types that can be shown depend on the user context in which the exploitable application is running. If the user is root a full compromise of the server - including confidential or sensitive files - would be possible. XXE can also be used to attack the availability of the server via denial of service as the references within a xml document can trivially trigger an amplification attack.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 1:1.0.dfsg2-6+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your fop 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 fop, fop-doc, and libfop-java packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/04/msg00046.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 99738

File Name: debian_DLA-927.nasl

Version: 3.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/1/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.9

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.3

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libfop-java, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:fop-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:fop

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/29/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-5661