Debian DLA-2589-2 : mupdf regression update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 147744

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

DLA 2589-1 incorrectly fixed CVE-2020-26519 and also induced regression where opening a PDF document resulted in a SIGFPE crash, a floating point exception.

For Debian 9 stretch, this problem has been fixed in version 1.9a+ds1-4+deb9u7.

We recommend that you upgrade your mupdf packages.

For the detailed security status of mupdf please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/mupdf

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 libmupdf-dev, mupdf, and mupdf-tools packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 147744

File Name: debian_DLA-2589.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 3/12/2021

Updated: 3/16/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mupdf, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libmupdf-dev, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mupdf-tools

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/14/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/14/2021

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