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Debian Security Advisory DSA 694-1 (xloadimage)

🗓️ 17 Jan 2008 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (c) 2005 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.comType 
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 694-1 for xloadimage contains multiple vulnerabilities, including shell meta-character handling and insufficient image property validation

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# OpenVAS Vulnerability Test
# $Id: deb_694_1.nasl 6616 2017-07-07 12:10:49Z cfischer $
# Description: Auto-generated from advisory DSA 694-1
#
# Authors:
# Thomas Reinke <[email protected]>
#
# Copyright:
# Copyright (c) 2007 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com
# Text descriptions are largerly excerpted from the referenced
# advisory, and are Copyright (c) the respective author(s)
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2,
# as published by the Free Software Foundation
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
#

include("revisions-lib.inc");
tag_insight = "Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in xloadimage, an image
viewer for X11.  The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project
identifies the following problems:

CVE-2005-0638

Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team has reported
a flaw in the handling of compressed images, where shell
meta-characters are not adequately escaped.

CVE-2005-0639

Insufficient validation of image properties in have been
discovered which could potentially result in buffer management
errors.

For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in
version 4.1-10woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 4.1-14.2.

We recommend that you upgrade your xloadimage package.";
tag_summary = "The remote host is missing an update to xloadimage
announced via advisory DSA 694-1.";

tag_solution = "https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20694-1";

if(description)
{
 script_id(53692);
 script_version("$Revision: 6616 $");
 script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"$Date: 2017-07-07 14:10:49 +0200 (Fri, 07 Jul 2017) $");
 script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2008-01-17 22:56:38 +0100 (Thu, 17 Jan 2008)");
 script_cve_id("CVE-2005-0638", "CVE-2005-0639");
 script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"7.5");
 script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
 script_name("Debian Security Advisory DSA 694-1 (xloadimage)");



 script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);

 script_copyright("Copyright (c) 2005 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com");
 script_family("Debian Local Security Checks");
 script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
 script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/debian_linux", "ssh/login/packages");
 script_tag(name : "solution" , value : tag_solution);
 script_tag(name : "insight" , value : tag_insight);
 script_tag(name : "summary" , value : tag_summary);
 script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
 script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
 exit(0);
}

#
# The script code starts here
#

include("pkg-lib-deb.inc");

res = "";
report = "";
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"xloadimage", ver:"4.1-10woody1", rls:"DEB3.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}

if (report != "") {
    security_message(data:report);
} else if (__pkg_match) {
    exit(99); # Not vulnerable.
}

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17 Jan 2008 00:00Current
0.6Low risk
Vulners AI Score0.6
EPSS0.02774
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