Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title pygments security update
Informations
Name DSA-3445 First vendor Publication 2016-01-13
Vendor Debian Last vendor Modification 2016-01-13
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 1

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 9.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Javantea discovered that pygments, a generic syntax highlighter, is prone to a shell injection vulnerability allowing a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via shell metacharacters in a font name.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1.5+dfsg-1+deb7u1.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.1+dfsg-1.1+deb8u1.

For the testing distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.1+dfsg-2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.1+dfsg-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your pygments packages.

Original Source

Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3445

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-78 Improper Sanitization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection') (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 10
Os 4

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2016-12-05 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201612-05.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-01-14 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3445.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-01-11 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_5f276780b6ce11e597315453ed2e2b49.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-01-08 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-2862-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-12-16 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2015-630.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-12-16 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-369.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2016-01-20 21:25:58
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2016-01-15 13:27:07
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2016-01-14 00:28:41
  • Multiple Updates
2016-01-14 00:23:55
  • First insertion