Debian DSA-916-1 : inkscape - buffer overflow

medium Nessus Plugin ID 22782

Synopsis

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

Description

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Inkscape, a vector-based drawing program. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

- CVE-2005-3737 Joxean Koret discovered a buffer overflow in the SVG parsing routines that can lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

- CVE-2005-3885 Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena noticed that the ps2epsi extension shell script uses a hard-coded temporary file making it vulnerable to symlink attacks.

Solution

Upgrade the inkscape package.

The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain inkscape packages.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.41-4.99.sarge2.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 22782

File Name: debian_DSA-916.nasl

Version: 1.22

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 10/14/2006

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.15

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Temporal Score: 4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:inkscape

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: 12/7/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/9/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-3737, CVE-2005-3885

BID: 14522

DSA: 916

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