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Debian DLA-1198-1 : libextractor security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 105009

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Leon Zhao discovered several security vulnerabilities in libextractor, a universal library and command-line tool to obtain meta-data about files. NULL pointer Dereferences, heap-based buffer overflows, integer signedness errors and out-of-bounds read may lead to a denial of service (application crash) or have other unspecified impact.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 1:0.6.3-5+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libextractor packages.

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 packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00000.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 105009

File Name: debian_DLA-1198.nasl

Version: 3.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/5/2017

Updated: 11/12/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, 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-2017-15602

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:debian:debian_linux:libextractor3, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libextractor-plugins, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libextractor-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libextractor-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:extract

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/4/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-15266, CVE-2017-15267, CVE-2017-15600, CVE-2017-15601, CVE-2017-15602, CVE-2017-15922