Executive Summary

Summary
Title JBIG-KIT: Denial of Service
Informations
Name GLSA-201405-20 First vendor Publication 2014-05-18
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2014-05-18
Severity (Vendor) Normal Revision N/A

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:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 6.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

A stack-based buffer overflow in JBIG-KIT might allow remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service.

Background

JBIG-KIT is a software implementation of the JBIG1 data compression standard.

Description

JBIG-KIT contains a stack-based buffer overflow in the jbg_dec_in function in libjbig/jbig.c.

Impact

A remote attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition via a specially crafted image file.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All JBIG-KIT users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-libs/jbigkit-2.1"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2013-6369 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-6369

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201405-20.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201405-20.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:24866
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:24866
Title: USN-2190-1 -- jbigkit vulnerability
Description: JBIG-KIT could be made to crash or run programs if it processed a specially crafted image file.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-2190-1
CVE-2013-6369
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Ubuntu 14.04
Ubuntu 13.10
Ubuntu 12.10
 Product(s): jbigkit
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 12

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2015-03-30 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2015-101.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-10-12 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2014-337.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-08-12 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2014-490.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-05-19 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201405-20.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-05-02 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-2190-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-04-23 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2014-4960.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-04-16 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2014-4948.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-04-14 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2014-077.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-04-11 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-2900.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2014-05-20 13:23:31
  • Multiple Updates
2014-05-18 17:20:03
  • First insertion