Debian DLA-589-1 : mupdf security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 92794

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

A flaw was discovered in the pdf_load_mesh_params() function allowing out-of-bounds write access to memory locations. With carefully crafted input, that could trigger a heap overflow, resulting in application crash or possibly having other unspecified impact.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 0.9-2+deb7u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your mupdf 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 libmupdf-dev, mupdf, and mupdf-tools packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2016/08/msg00012.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 92794

File Name: debian_DLA-589.nasl

Version: 2.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/9/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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:libmupdf-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mupdf, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mupdf-tools, 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: 8/8/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-6525