Debian DLA-688-1 : cairo security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 94410

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that there was a possible DoS attack in Cairo, a multi-platform library providing vector-based rendering. An SVG could generate invalid pointers from a _cairo_image_surface in write_png.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', this issue has been fixed in cairo version 1.12.2-3+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your cairo packages.

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/2016/10/msg00044.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/cairo

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 94410

File Name: debian_DLA-688.nasl

Version: 2.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/31/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:cairo-perf-utils, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libcairo-gobject2, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libcairo-script-interpreter2, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libcairo2, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libcairo2-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libcairo2-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libcairo2-doc, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/28/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-9082