Executive Summary

Summary
Title MuPDF: Multiple vulnerabilities
Informations
Name GLSA-201702-12 First vendor Publication 2017-02-19
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2017-02-19
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 MuPDF, the worst of which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

Background

A lightweight PDF, XPS, and E-book viewer.

Description

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

Impact

A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted PDF document using MuPDF possibly resulting in the 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-1.10a-r1"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2016-6265 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-6265
[ 2 ] CVE-2016-6525 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-6525
[ 3 ] CVE-2017-5896 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-5896

Availability

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

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-12

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201702-12.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
33 % CWE-416 Use After Free
33 % CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read
33 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 8
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2017-03-24 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2017-3b97b275da.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-08 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2017-9a819664a6.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-02 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2017-844445f2aa.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-01 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3797.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-01 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2017-6fe982684d.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-02-21 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201702-12.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-02-21 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2017-271.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-10-12 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_47157c14901311e6a59014dae9d210b8.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-08-29 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3655.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-08-09 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-589.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-08-04 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2016-926.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2017-02-22 13:21:09
  • Multiple Updates
2017-02-19 17:21:38
  • First insertion