Debian DSA-2285-1 : mapserver - several vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 55694

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Synopsis

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

Description

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in mapserver, a CGI-based web framework to publish spatial data and interactive mapping applications. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

- CVE-2011-2703 Several instances of insufficient escaping of user input, leading to SQL injection attacks via OGC filter encoding (in WMS, WFS, and SOS filters).

- CVE-2011-2704 Missing length checks in the processing of OGC filter encoding that can lead to stack-based buffer overflows and the execution of arbitrary code.

Solution

Upgrade the mapserver packages.

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 5.0.3-3+lenny7.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 5.6.5-2+squeeze2.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 55694

File Name: debian_DSA-2285.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 7/27/2011

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: 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:mapserver, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/26/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-2703, CVE-2011-2704

BID: 48720

DSA: 2285

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