Debian DLA-995-1 : swftools security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 100940

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

CVE-2017-8400 In SWFTools 0.9.2, an out-of-bounds write of heap data can occur in the function png_load() in lib/png.c:755. This issue can be triggered by a malformed PNG file that is mishandled by png2swf.
Attackers could exploit this issue for DoS; it might cause arbitrary code execution.

CVE-2017-8401 In SWFTools 0.9.2, an out-of-bounds read of heap data can occur in the function png_load() in lib/png.c:724. This issue can be triggered by a malformed PNG file that is mishandled by png2swf.
Attackers could exploit this issue for DoS.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 0.9.2+ds1-3+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your swftools 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 swftools package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 100940

File Name: debian_DLA-995.nasl

Version: 3.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 6/21/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, 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:swftools, 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: 6/20/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-8400, CVE-2017-8401

Detections

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