Executive Summary

Summary
Title DjVuLibre vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-2056-1 First vendor Publication 2013-12-16
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2013-12-16
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:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 9.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary:

DjVuLibre could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

Software Description: - djvulibre: DjVu image format library and tools

Details:

It was discovered that DjVuLibre incorrectly handled certain memory operations. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted DjVu file, applications could be made to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
libdjvulibre21 3.5.24-9ubuntu0.1

After a standard system update you need to restart your session to make all the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2056-1
CVE-2012-6535

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/djvulibre/3.5.24-9ubuntu0.1

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2056-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-94 Failure to Control Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:20986
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:20986
Title: USN-2056-1 -- djvulibre vulnerability
Description: DjVuLibre could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-2056-1
CVE-2012-6535
Version: 5
Platform(s): Ubuntu 12.04
Product(s): djvulibre
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:21512
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:21512
Title: DSA-2844-1 djvulibre - arbitrary code execution
Description: It was discovered that djvulibre, the Open Source DjVu implementation project, can be crashed or possibly make it execute arbitrary code when processing a specially crafted djvu file.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-2844-1
CVE-2012-6535
Version: 5
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 6.0
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 6.0
Product(s): djvulibre
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 25

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2014-02-10 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201402-13.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-01-16 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-2844.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-12-17 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-2056-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2014-02-17 12:02:52
  • Multiple Updates
2013-12-16 21:18:35
  • First insertion