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Debian DLA-1305-1 : ming security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 107277

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Ming :

CVE-2018-5251

Integer signedness error vulnerability (left shift of a negative value) in the readSBits function (util/read.c). Remote attackers can leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via a crafted swf file.

CVE-2018-5294

Integer overflow vulnerability (caused by an out-of-range left shift) in the readUInt32 function (util/read.c). Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via a crafted swf file.

CVE-2018-6315

Integer overflow and resultant out-of-bounds read in the outputSWF_TEXT_RECORD function (util/outputscript.c). Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service or unspecified other impact via a crafted SWF file.

CVE-2018-6359

Use-after-free vulnerability in the decompileIF function (util/decompile.c). Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service or unspecified other impact via a crafted SWF file.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 0.4.4-1.1+deb7u7.

We recommend that you upgrade your ming 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/2018/03/msg00008.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 107277

File Name: debian_DLA-1305.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/12/2018

Updated: 10/24/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-6359

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ming-fonts-dejavu, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libming-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php5-ming, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libswf-perl, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libming1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libming-util, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-ming, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ming-fonts-opensymbol

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: 3/11/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-5251, CVE-2018-5294, CVE-2018-6315, CVE-2018-6359