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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.56835
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-1081-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'libextractor' package(s) announced via the DSA-1081-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'libextractor' package(s) announced via the DSA-1081-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Luigi Auriemma discovered a buffer overflow in the processing of ASF files in libextractor, a library to extract arbitrary meta-data from files, which can lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.4.2-2sarge5.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.5.14-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libextractor packages.

Affected Software/OS:
'libextractor' package(s) on Debian 3.1.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
4.0

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

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2006-2458
BugTraq ID: 18021
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18021
Bugtraq: 20060517 Two heap overflow in libextractor 0.5.13 (rev 2832) (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/434288/100/0/threaded
Debian Security Information: DSA-1081 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1081
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200605-14.xml
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016118
http://secunia.com/advisories/20150
http://secunia.com/advisories/20160
http://secunia.com/advisories/20326
http://secunia.com/advisories/20457
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/916
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2006:012 (Google Search)
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006-06-02.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1848
XForce ISS Database: libextractor-asfextractor-bo(26531)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26531
XForce ISS Database: libextractor-qtextractor-bo(26532)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26532
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