Executive Summary



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Summary
Title ARJ: Multiple vulnerabilities
Informations
Name GLSA-201612-15 First vendor Publication 2016-12-06
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2016-12-06
Severity (Vendor) N/A 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 ARJ, the worst of which may allow attackers to execute arbitrary code.

Background

Open-source implementation of the ARJ archiver.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in ARJ. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

An attacker, using a specially crafted ARJ archive, could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, or cause a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All ARJ users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-arch/arj-3.10.22-r5"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2015-0556
http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-0556
[ 2 ] CVE-2015-0557
http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-0557
[ 3 ] CVE-2015-2782
http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-2782

Availability

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

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-15

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201612-15.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
33 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
33 % CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')
33 % CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1
Os 1
Os 3

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2017-10-20 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_b95e5674b4d611e7b8950cc47a494882.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-12-06 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201612-15.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-04-22 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2015-5524.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-04-14 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2015-5546.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-04-13 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2015-5603.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-04-13 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing a security update.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2015-201.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-04-09 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-188.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-04-07 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3213.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2016-12-07 13:25:37
  • Multiple Updates
2016-12-06 05:20:21
  • First insertion