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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.63608
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-1743-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'libtk-img' package(s) announced via the DSA-1743-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'libtk-img' package(s) announced via the DSA-1743-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Two buffer overflows have been found in the GIF image parsing code of Tk, a cross-platform graphical toolkit, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

CVE-2007-5137

It was discovered that libtk-img is prone to a buffer overflow via specially crafted multi-frame interlaced GIF files.

CVE-2007-5378

It was discovered that libtk-img is prone to a buffer overflow via specially crafted GIF files with certain subimage sizes.

For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 1.3-release-7+lenny1.

For the oldstable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 1.3-15etch3.

For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.3-release-8.

We recommend that you upgrade your libtk-img packages.

Affected Software/OS:
'libtk-img' package(s) on Debian 4, Debian 5.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
6.8

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

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2007-5137
BugTraq ID: 25826
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25826
Debian Security Information: DSA-1743 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1743
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-October/msg00261.html
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200710-07.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:200
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=192539
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9540
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0136.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/26942
http://secunia.com/advisories/27086
http://secunia.com/advisories/27182
http://secunia.com/advisories/27207
http://secunia.com/advisories/27229
http://secunia.com/advisories/27295
http://secunia.com/advisories/29069
http://secunia.com/advisories/34297
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2007:020 (Google Search)
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_20_sr.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-529-1
http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2007-October/001826.html
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2007-5378
BugTraq ID: 26056
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26056
Bugtraq: 20080604 VMSA-2008-0009 Updates to VMware Workstation, VMware Player, VMware ACE, VMware Fusion, VMware Server, VMware VIX API, VMware ESX, VMware ESXi resolve critical security issues (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493080/100/0/threaded
Debian Security Information: DSA-1415 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1415
Debian Security Information: DSA-1416 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1416
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9480
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0134.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0135.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/27801
http://secunia.com/advisories/27806
http://secunia.com/advisories/29070
http://secunia.com/advisories/30129
http://secunia.com/advisories/30535
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-237465-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1456/references
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1744
XForce ISS Database: tktoolkit-filereadgif-dos(37189)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/37189
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