Debian DLA-2649-1 : cgal security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 149261

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Four security issues have been discovered in cgal. A code execution vulnerability exists in the Nef polygon-parsing functionality of CGAL.

CVE-2020-28601

An oob read vulnerability exists in Nef_2/PM_io_parser.h PM_io_parser::read_vertex() Face_of[] OOB read. An attacker can provide malicious input to trigger this vulnerability.

CVE-2020-28636

An oob read vulnerability exists in Nef_S2/SNC_io_parser.h SNC_io_parser::read_sloop() slh->twin() An attacker can provide malicious input to trigger this vulnerability.

CVE-2020-35628

An oob read vulnerability exists in Nef_S2/SNC_io_parser.h SNC_io_parser::read_sloop() slh->incident_sface. An attacker can provide malicious input to trigger this vulnerability.

CVE-2020-35636

An oob read vulnerability exists in Nef_S2/SNC_io_parser.h SNC_io_parser::read_sface() sfh->volume(). An attacker can provide malicious input to trigger this vulnerability.

For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 4.9-1+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your cgal packages.

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

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 packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/05/msg00002.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/cgal

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/cgal

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 149261

File Name: debian_DLA-2649.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/5/2021

Updated: 1/12/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-35636

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libcgal-demo, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libcgal-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libcgal-ipelets, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libcgal-qt5-12, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libcgal-qt5-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libcgal12, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0

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: 5/5/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/4/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-28601, CVE-2020-28636, CVE-2020-35628, CVE-2020-35636