Debian DLA-2161-1 : tika security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 134982

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Two security issues have been detected in tika and fixed.

CVE-2020-1950: carefully crafted or corrupt PSD file can cause excessive memory usage in Apache.

CVE-2020-1951: Infinite Loop (DoS) vulnerability in Apache Tika's PSDParser.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version 1.5-1+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your tika 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 libtika-java package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 134982

File Name: debian_DLA-2161.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 3/30/2020

Updated: 3/20/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-1951

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libtika-java, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/28/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/23/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-1950, CVE-2020-1951

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