GLSA-200711-26 : teTeX: Multiple vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 28265

Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200711-26 (teTeX: Multiple vulnerabilities)

Joachim Schrod discovered several buffer overflow vulnerabilities and an insecure temporary file creation in the 'dvilj' application that is used by dvips to convert DVI files to printer formats (CVE-2007-5937, CVE-2007-5936). Bastien Roucaries reported that the 'dvips' application is vulnerable to two stack-based buffer overflows when processing DVI documents with long \\href{} URIs (CVE-2007-5935). teTeX also includes code from Xpdf that is vulnerable to a memory corruption and two heap-based buffer overflows (GLSA 200711-22); and it contains code from T1Lib that is vulnerable to a buffer overflow when processing an overly long font filename (GLSA 200710-12).
Impact :

A remote attacker could entice a user to process a specially crafted DVI or PDF file which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application. A local attacker could exploit the 'dvilj' vulnerability to conduct a symlink attack to overwrite arbitrary files.
Workaround :

There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All teTeX users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=app-text/tetex-3.0_p1-r6'

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200710-12

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200711-22

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200711-26

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 28265

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200711-26.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: local

Published: 11/20/2007

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:tetex, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/18/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-5935, CVE-2007-5936, CVE-2007-5937

BID: 26469

CWE: 119, 264

GLSA: 200711-26