Debian DLA-2214-1 : libexif security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 136674

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Various vulnerabilities have been addressed in libexif, a library to parse EXIF metadata files.

CVE-2016-6328

An integer overflow when parsing the MNOTE entry data of the input file had been found. This could have caused denial of service (DoS) and Information Disclosure (disclosing some critical heap chunk metadata, even other applications' private data).

CVE-2017-7544

libexif had been vulnerable to out-of-bounds heap read vulnerability in exif_data_save_data_entry function in libexif/exif-data.c caused by improper length computation of the allocated data of an ExifMnote entry which could have caused denial of service or possibly information disclosure.

CVE-2018-20030

An error when processing the EXIF_IFD_INTEROPERABILITY and EXIF_IFD_EXIF tags within libexif version could have been exploited to exhaust available CPU resources.

CVE-2020-0093

In exif_data_save_data_entry of exif-data.c, there was a possible out of bounds read due to a missing bounds check. This could have lead to local information disclosure with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction was needed for exploitation.

CVE-2020-12767

libexif had a divide-by-zero error in exif_entry_get_value in exif-entry.c

For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version 0.6.21-2+deb8u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your libexif 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 libexif-dev, and libexif12 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 136674

File Name: debian_DLA-2214.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 5/18/2020

Updated: 3/12/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-7544

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 8.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libexif-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libexif12, 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: 5/18/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/21/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-6328, CVE-2017-7544, CVE-2018-20030, CVE-2020-0093, CVE-2020-12767

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