Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title cabextract, libmspack: Multiple vulnerabilities
Informations
Name GLSA-201903-20 First vendor Publication 2019-03-28
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2019-03-28
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: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

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in cabextract and libmspack, the worst of which could result in a Denial of Service.

Background

cabextract is free software for extracting Microsoft cabinet files.

libmspack is a portable library for some loosely related Microsoft compression formats

Description

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

Impact

Please review the referenced CVE's for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All cabextract users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-arch/cabextract-1.8"

All libmspack users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-libs/libmspack-0.8_alpha"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2018-14679 : https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-14679
[ 2 ] CVE-2018-14680 : https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-14680
[ 3 ] CVE-2018-14681 : https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-14681
[ 4 ] CVE-2018-14682 : https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-14682
[ 5 ] CVE-2018-18584 : https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-18584
[ 6 ] CVE-2018-18585 : https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-18585
[ 7 ] CVE-2018-18586 : https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-18586

Availability

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

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201903-20

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201903-20.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
29 % CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write (CWE/SANS Top 25)
29 % CWE-193 Off-by-one Error
14 % CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference
14 % CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') (CWE/SANS Top 25)
14 % CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 5
Application 11
Application 5
Application 6
Application 1
Application 1
Os 5
Os 2
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 4

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2019-12-10 Libmspack cabd_sys_read_block off-by-one heap overflow attempt
RuleID : 52133 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-OTHER
2019-12-10 Libmspack cabd_sys_read_block off-by-one heap overflow attempt
RuleID : 52132 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-OTHER

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2019-01-14 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2019-1146.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2019-01-03 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-847fe2ed61.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2019-01-03 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.
File : fedora_2018-a5953af115.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2019-01-03 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.
File : fedora_2018-cb337fb199.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2019-01-03 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-ddda173f56.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2019-01-03 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-eff94da132.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-12-28 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : EulerOS_SA-2018-1435.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-12-28 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : EulerOS_SA-2018-1436.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-11-19 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.
File : fedora_2018-c73d257297.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-11-16 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2018-3327.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-10-29 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1555.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-10-17 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-1fc39f2d13.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-10-04 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_8b812395c73911e8ab5b9c5c8e75236a.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-08-13 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-e1adecd46c.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-08-07 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1460.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-08-03 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-4260.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2019-03-28 05:18:22
  • First insertion