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Debian DLA-1029-1 : libmtp security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 101775

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

libmtp, a library for communicating with MTP aware devices (like cellular phones and audio players), was found to be vulnerable to several integer overflow vulnerabilities, which allowed malicious devices to cause denial of service crashes and maybe remote code execution.

CVE-2017-9831

An integer overflow vulnerability in the ptp_unpack_EOS_CustomFuncEx function of the ptp-pack.c file of libmtp (version 1.1.12 and below) allows attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds memory access) or maybe remote code execution by inserting a mobile device into a personal computer through a USB cable.

CVE-2017-9832

An integer overflow vulnerability in ptp-pack.c (ptp_unpack_OPL function) of libmtp (version 1.1.12 and below) allows attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds memory access) or maybe remote code execution by inserting a mobile device into a personal computer through a USB cable.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 1.1.3-35-g0ece104-5+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libmtp 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 packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/07/msg00021.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 101775

File Name: debian_DLA-1029.nasl

Version: 3.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/18/2017

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: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:P/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:libmtp-common, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libmtp-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libmtp-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libmtp-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libmtp-runtime, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libmtp9, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mtp-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: 7/17/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-9831, CVE-2017-9832