Executive Summary

Summary
Title MuPDF: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
Informations
Name GLSA-201412-43 First vendor Publication 2014-12-26
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2014-12-26
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:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in MuPDF, possibly resulting in remote code execution or Denial of Service.

Background

MuPDF is a lightweight PDF viewer and toolkit written in portable C.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in MuPDF. Please review the CVE identifier and Secunia Research referenced below for details.

Impact

A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted PDF using MuPDF, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All MuPDF users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-text/mupdf-1.3_p20140118"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2014-2013 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-2013
[ 2 ] Secunia Research: MuPDF Two Integer Overflow Vulnerabilities http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2011-12/

Availability

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

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-43.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-43.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:24529
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:24529
Title: DSA-2951-1 mupdf - security update
Description: It was discovered that a buffer overflow in the MuPDF viewer might lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-2951-1
CVE-2014-2013
 Version: 3
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 7.0
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 7.0
 Product(s): mupdf
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 5

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2014-12-29 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201412-43.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2014-172.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-06 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-2951.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2014-12-30 13:25:13
  • Multiple Updates
2014-12-26 21:22:44
  • First insertion