Debian DLA-2872-1 : agg - LTS security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 156418

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

The remote Debian 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dla-2872 advisory.

- An issue was discovered in Anti-Grain Geometry (AGG) 2.4 as used in SVG++ (aka svgpp) 1.2.3. In the function agg::cell_aa::not_equal, dx is assigned to (x2 - x1). If dx >= dx_limit, which is (16384 << poly_subpixel_shift), this function will call itself recursively. There can be a situation where (x2 - x1) is always bigger than dx_limit during the recursion, leading to continual stack consumption.
(CVE-2019-6245)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade the agg packages.

For Debian 9 stretch, this problem has been fixed in version 2.5+dfsg1-11+deb9u1.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=919322

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

https://www.debian.org/lts/security/2021/dla-2872

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-6245

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

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 156418

File Name: debian_DLA-2872.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/30/2021

Updated: 11/21/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-6245

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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:libagg-dev, 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: 12/31/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/13/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-6245