Debian DSA-1857-1 : camlimages - integer overflow

medium Nessus Plugin ID 44722

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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. This advisory addresses issues with the reading of JPEG and GIF Images, while DSA 1832-1addressed the issue with PNG images.

Solution

Upgrade the camlimages package.

For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.20-8+etch2.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1:2.2.0-4+lenny2.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 44722

File Name: debian_DSA-1857.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 2/24/2010

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/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

Patch Publication Date: 8/10/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-2660

CWE: 189

DSA: 1857

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