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Debian DSA-1832-1 : camlimages - integer overflow

high Nessus Plugin ID 44697

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Synopsis

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

Description

Tielei Wang discovered that CamlImages, an open source image processing library, suffers from several integer overflows which may lead to a potentially exploitable heap overflow and result in arbitrary code execution.

Solution

Upgrade the camlimages package.

For the old stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.20-8+etch1.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 2.2.0-4+lenny1.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=535909

https://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1832

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 44697

File Name: debian_DSA-1832.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/24/2010

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:camlimages, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/13/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-2295

BID: 35556

CWE: 189

DSA: 1832