An error within the "tar_directory_for_file()" function (gsf-infile-tar.c) in GNOME Structured File Library before 1.14.41 can be exploited to trigger a Null pointer dereference and subsequently cause a crash via a crafted TAR file.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - An error within the tar_directory_for_file() function (gsf-infile-tar.c) in GNOME Structured File     Library before 1.14.41 can be exploited to trigger a Null pointer dereference and subsequently cause a     crash via a crafted TAR file. (CVE-2016-9888)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:3770-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2016-9888: Fixed null pointer dereference with corrupted tar files (bsc#1014609)
    - CVE-2024-36474: Fixed out-of-bounds index when processing a directory via an integer overflow in the     compound document binary file format parser (bsc#1231282)
    - CVE-2024-42415: Fixed heap-based buffer overflow when processing the sector allocation table via an     integer overflow in the compound document binary file format parser (bsc#1231283)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - An error within the "tar_directory_for_file()" function (gsf-infile-tar.c) in GNOME Structured File
    Library before 1.14.41 can be exploited to trigger a Null pointer dereference and subsequently cause a
    crash via a crafted TAR file. (CVE-2016-9888)

It was discovered that there was a NULL pointer deference exploit in libgsf, a I/O abstraction library for GNOME.

An error within the 'tar_directory_for_file()' function could be exploited to trigger a NULL pointer dereference and subsequently cause a crash via a crafted TAR file.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 1.14.30-2+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libgsf 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.

According to the version of the libgsf package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

  - An error within the 'tar_directory_for_file()' function     (gsf-infile-tar.c) in GNOME Structured File Library     before 1.14.41 can be exploited to trigger a Null     pointer dereference and subsequently cause a crash via     a crafted TAR file.(CVE-2016-9888)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Security fix for CVE-2016-9888

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

- Security fix for CVE-2016-9888

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

It was discovered that there was a NULL pointer deference exploit in libgsf, a I/O abstraction library for GNOME.

An error within the 'tar_directory_for_file()' function could be exploited to trigger a NULL pointer dereference and subsequently cause a crash via a crafted TAR file.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', this issue has been fixed in libgsf version 1.14.21-2.1+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libgsf 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.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
220153	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2016-9888	Nessus	Misc.	medium
209948	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : libgsf (SUSE-SU-2024:3770-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
405199	Alpine: multiple libgsf packages: security update to 1.14.41-r0	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	medium
405199	Alpine: multiple libgsf packages: security update to 1.14.41-r0	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	medium
400917	Alpine: multiple libgsf packages: security update to 1.14.40-r0 (deprecated)	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	medium
400917	Alpine: multiple libgsf packages: security update to 1.14.40-r0 (deprecated)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	medium
135975	Debian DLA-2183-1 : libgsf security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium
131855	EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : libgsf (EulerOS-SA-2019-2363)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
130875	EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : libgsf (EulerOS-SA-2019-2166)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
130702	EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : libgsf (EulerOS-SA-2019-2240)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
96571	Fedora 25 : mingw-libgsf (2017-21edf966b0)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
95901	Fedora 24 : libgsf (2016-4871c26b3c)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
95677	Fedora 25 : libgsf (2016-6ba1694d89)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
95665	Debian DLA-740-1 : libgsf security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium

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