Debian DLA-1098-1 : freexl security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 103258

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

The Cisco Talos team reported two sensitive security issues affecting FreeXL-1.0.3 and any previous version.

CVE-2017-2923

An exploitable heap based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the read_biff_next_record function of FreeXL 1.0.3. A specially crafted XLS file can cause a memory corruption resulting in remote code execution. An attacker can send malicious XLS file to trigger this vulnerability.

CVE-2017-2924

An exploitable heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the read_legacy_biff function of FreeXL 1.0.3. A specially crafted XLS file can cause a memory corruption resulting in remote code execution.
An attacker can send malicious XLS file to trigger this vulnerability.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.0b-1+deb7u4.

We recommend that you upgrade your freexl 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.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 103258

File Name: debian_DLA-1098.nasl

Version: 3.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 9/18/2017

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: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/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:libfreexl-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libfreexl1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libfreexl1-dbg, 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: 9/17/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-2923, CVE-2017-2924

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