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EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : exempi (EulerOS-SA-2018-1111)

high Nessus Plugin ID 109509

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.

Description

According to the versions of the exempi package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

 - Exempi provides a library for easy parsing of XMP metadata. It is a port of Adobe XMP SDK to work on UNIX and to be build with GNU automake.It includes XMPCore and XMPFiles.

 - Security fix(es):

 - An issue was discovered in Exempi before 2.4.3. It allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid memcpy with resultant use-after-free) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a .pdf file containing JPEG data, related to XMPFiles/source/FormatSupport/ReconcileTIFF.cpp, XMPFiles/source/FormatSupport/TIFF_MemoryReader.cpp, and XMPFiles/source/FormatSupport/TIFF_Support.hpp.(CVE-201 7-18234)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected exempi packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?9212187f

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 109509

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2018-1111.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Published: 5/2/2018

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:exempi, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/EulerOS/release, Host/EulerOS/rpm-list, Host/EulerOS/sp

Excluded KB Items: Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Patch Publication Date: 4/21/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-18234