Debian DLA-1631-1 : libcaca security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 121055

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in libcaca, a graphics library that outputs text: integer overflows, floating point exceptions or invalid memory reads may lead to a denial of service (application crash) if a malformed image file is processed.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version 0.99.beta19-2+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libcaca 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 caca-utils, libcaca-dev, and libcaca0 packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00007.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/libcaca

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 121055

File Name: debian_DLA-1631.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/10/2019

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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:caca-utils, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libcaca-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libcaca0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/9/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/28/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-20544, CVE-2018-20546, CVE-2018-20547, CVE-2018-20549