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Debian DSA-2900-1 : jbigkit - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 73465

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Synopsis

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

Description

Florian Weimer of the Red Hat product security team discovered multiple buffer overflows in jbigkit, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code when processing malformed images.

Solution

Upgrade the jbigkit packages.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 2.0-2+deb7u1.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=743960

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

https://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2900

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 73465

File Name: debian_DSA-2900.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/11/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:jbigkit, 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: 4/10/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-6369

BID: 66697

DSA: 2900