The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3570-1 advisory.

    Joonun Jang discovered that AdvanceCOMP incorrectly handled certain malformed zip files. If a user or     automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted zip file, a remote attacker could cause     AdvanceCOMP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Security fix for CVE-2018-1056

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Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - An out-of-bounds heap buffer read flaw was found in the way advancecomp before 2.1-2018/02 handled     processing of ZIP files. An attacker could potentially use this flaw to crash the advzip utility by     tricking it into processing crafted ZIP files. (CVE-2018-1056)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in advancecomp, a collection of recompression utilities.

CVE-2018-1056

Joonun Jang discovered that the advzip tool was prone to a heap-based buffer overflow. This might allow an attacker to cause a denial of service (application crash) or other unspecified impact via a crafted file.

CVE-2019-9210

The png_compress function in pngex.cc in advpng has an integer overflow upon encountering an invalid PNG size, which results in another heap based buffer overflow.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version 1.19-1+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your advancecomp 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.

Joonun Jang discovered that the advzip tool in advancecomp, a collection of recompression utilities, was prone to a heap-based buffer overflow. This might allow an attacker to cause a denial of service (application crash) or other unspecified impact via a crafted file.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 1.15-1+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your advancecomp 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.

The remote Debian 9 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dla-2868 advisory.

  - An out-of-bounds heap buffer read flaw was found in the way advancecomp before 2.1-2018/02 handled     processing of ZIP files. An attacker could potentially use this flaw to crash the advzip utility by     tricking it into processing crafted ZIP files. (CVE-2018-1056)

  - An issue was discovered in AdvanceCOMP through 2.1. A NULL pointer dereference exists in the function     be_uint32_read() located in endianrw.h. It can be triggered by sending a crafted file to a binary. It     allows an attacker to cause a Denial of Service (Segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other     impact when a victim opens a specially crafted file. (CVE-2019-8379)

  - An issue was discovered in AdvanceCOMP through 2.1. An invalid memory address occurs in the function     adv_png_unfilter_8 in lib/png.c. It can be triggered by sending a crafted file to a binary. It allows an     attacker to cause a Denial of Service (Segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact when     a victim opens a specially crafted file. (CVE-2019-8383)

  - In AdvanceCOMP 2.1, png_compress in pngex.cc in advpng has an integer overflow upon encountering an     invalid PNG size, which results in an attempted memcpy to write into a buffer that is too small. (There is     also a heap-based buffer over-read.) (CVE-2019-9210)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
106837	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : AdvanceCOMP vulnerability (USN-3570-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	2/15/2018	8/27/2024	high
120719	Fedora 28 : advancecomp (2018-b2a2c5c0cf)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	1/3/2019	7/1/2024	high
221612	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2018-1056	Nessus	Misc.	3/4/2025	3/4/2025	high
122550	Debian DLA-1702-1 : advancecomp security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	3/4/2019	6/18/2024	high
106808	Debian DLA-1281-1 : advancecomp security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	2/14/2018	1/11/2021	high
108389	Fedora 27 : advancecomp (2018-af30668257)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	3/16/2018	1/30/2025	high
156394	Debian DLA-2868-1 : advancecomp - LTS security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	12/30/2021	11/21/2023	high

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