Executive Summary
This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Title | libextractor security update |
| Informations | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | DSA-4290 | First vendor Publication | 2018-09-10 |
| Vendor | Debian | Last vendor Modification | 2018-09-10 |
| Severity (Vendor) | N/A | Revision | 1 |
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
| Several vulnerabilities were discovered in libextractor, a library to extract arbitrary meta-data from files, which may lead to denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code if a specially crafted file is opened. For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 1:1.3-4+deb9u2. We recommend that you upgrade your libextractor packages. For the detailed security status of libextractor please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/libextractor |
Original Source
| Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4290 |
CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration
| % | Id | Name |
|---|---|---|
| 50 % | CWE-787 | Out-of-bounds Write (CWE/SANS Top 25) |
| 50 % | CWE-125 | Out-of-bounds Read |
CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
| Type | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 3 | |
| Os | 2 |
Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2018-09-12 | Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update. File : debian_DLA-1501.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2018-09-12 | Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update. File : debian_DSA-4290.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2018-08-28 | Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update. File : debian_DLA-1478.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
Alert History
| Date | Informations |
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| 2018-09-15 17:21:35 |
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| 2018-09-11 00:18:45 |
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