Debian DSA-3205-1 : batik - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 82302

Synopsis

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

Description

Nicolas Gregoire and Kevin Schaller discovered that Batik, a toolkit for processing SVG images, would load XML external entities by default. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted SVG file, an attacker could possibly obtain access to arbitrary files or cause resource consumption.

Solution

Upgrade the batik packages.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1.7+dfsg-3+deb7u1.

For the upcoming stable distribution (jessie) and unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.7+dfsg-5.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=780897

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

https://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3205

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 82302

File Name: debian_DSA-3205.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/30/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:batik, 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: 3/27/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-0250

BID: 73153

DSA: 3205