Debian DLA-2185-1 : eog security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 135977

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that eog (Eye of GNOME) incorrectly handled certain invalid UTF-8 strings. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted image, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause Eye of GNOME to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 3.14.1-1+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your eog 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 eog, eog-dbg, and eog-dev packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 135977

File Name: debian_DLA-2185.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 4/27/2020

Updated: 3/14/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, 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-2016-6855

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:eog, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:eog-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:eog-dev, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0

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: 4/25/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/7/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-6855

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