Debian DSA-2754-1 : exactimage - denial of service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 69841

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

It was discovered that exactimage, a fast image processing library, does not correctly handle error conditions of the embedded copy of dcraw. This could result in a crash or other behaviour in an application using the library due to an uninitialized variable being passed to longjmp.

This is a different issue than CVE-2013-1438/DSA-2748-1.

Solution

Upgrade the exactimage packages.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 0.8.1-3+deb6u3.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 0.8.5-5+deb7u3.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 69841

File Name: debian_DSA-2754.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 9/11/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:exactimage

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/10/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-1441

BID: 62189

DSA: 2754

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