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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.56526
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-1021-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'netpbm-free' package(s) announced via the DSA-1021-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'netpbm-free' package(s) announced via the DSA-1021-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Max Vozeler from the Debian Audit Project discovered that pstopnm, a converter from Postscript to the PBM, PGM and PNM formats, launches Ghostscript in an insecure manner, which might lead to the execution of arbitrary shell commands, when converting specially crafted Postscript files.

For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 9.20-8.6.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 10.0-8sarge3.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 10.0-9.

We recommend that you upgrade your netpbm package.

Affected Software/OS:
'netpbm-free' package(s) on Debian 3.0, Debian 3.1.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
7.5

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-2471
BugTraq ID: 14379
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14379
Debian Security Information: DSA-1021 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1021
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=319757
http://www.osvdb.org/18253
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11645
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-743.html
http://securitytracker.com/id?1014752
http://secunia.com/advisories/16184
http://secunia.com/advisories/18330
http://secunia.com/advisories/19436
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2005:019 (Google Search)
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_19_sr.html
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2005/0038/
XForce ISS Database: netpbm-dsafer-command-execution(21500)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/21500
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