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FreeBSD : pspp -- multiple vulnerabilities (6876b163-8708-11e7-8568-e8e0b747a45a)

high Nessus Plugin ID 102690

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Synopsis

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

Description

CVE Details reports :

- There is an Integer overflow in the hash_int function of the libpspp library in GNU PSPP 0.10.5-pre2 (CVE-2017-10791).

- There is a NULL pointer Dereference in the function ll_insert() of the libpspp library in GNU PSPP 0.10.5-pre2 (CVE-2017-10792).

- There is an illegal address access in the function output_hex() in data/data-out.c of the libpspp library in GNU PSPP 0.11.0 that will lead to remote denial of service (CVE-2017-12958).

- There is a reachable assertion abort in the function dict_add_mrset() in data/dictionary.c of the libpspp library in GNU PSPP 0.11.0 that will lead to a remote denial of service attack (CVE-2017-12959).

- There is a reachable assertion abort in the function dict_rename_var() in data/dictionary.c of the libpspp library in GNU PSPP 0.11.0 that will lead to remote denial of service (CVE-2017-12960).

- There is an assertion abort in the function parse_attributes() in data/sys-file-reader.c of the libpspp library in GNU PSPP 0.11.0 that will lead to remote denial of service (CVE-2017-12961).

Solution

Update the affected package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?3ba60392

http://www.nessus.org/u?e5b07466

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 102690

File Name: freebsd_pkg_6876b163870811e78568e8e0b747a45a.nasl

Version: 3.6

Type: local

Published: 8/23/2017

Updated: 11/26/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-12961

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:pspp, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/22/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/18/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-10791, CVE-2017-10792, CVE-2017-12958, CVE-2017-12959, CVE-2017-12960, CVE-2017-12961