Debian DLA-420-1 : libmatroska security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 88845

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that there was a invalid memory address issue in libmatroska, an extensible open standard audio/video container format.

When reading a block group or a simple block that uses EBML lacing the frame sizes indicated in the lacing weren't checked against the available number of bytes. If the indicated frame size was bigger than the whole block's size the parser would read beyond the end of the buffer resulting in a heap information leak.

For Debian 6 Squeeze, this issue has been fixed in libmatroska version 0.8.1-1.1+deb6u1.

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 libmatroska-dev, and libmatroska0 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 88845

File Name: debian_DLA-420.nasl

Version: 2.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 2/19/2016

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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:libmatroska-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libmatroska0, 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: 2/18/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-9765

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