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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.703655
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-3655-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'mupdf' package(s) announced via the DSA-3655-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'mupdf' package(s) announced via the DSA-3655-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Two vulnerabilities were discovered in MuPDF, a lightweight PDF viewer. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

CVE-2016-6265

Marco Grassi discovered a use-after-free vulnerability in MuPDF. An attacker can take advantage of this flaw to cause an application crash (denial-of-service), or potentially to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running MuPDF, if a specially crafted PDF file is processed.

CVE-2016-6525

Yu Hong and Zheng Jihong discovered a heap overflow vulnerability within the pdf_load_mesh_params function, allowing an attacker to cause an application crash (denial-of-service), or potentially to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running MuPDF, if a specially crafted PDF file is processed.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 1.5-1+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your mupdf packages.

Affected Software/OS:
'mupdf' package(s) on Debian 8.

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-2016-6265
BugTraq ID: 92071
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92071
Debian Security Information: DSA-3655 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3655
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-12
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/21/7
SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2016:1926 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00007.html
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-6525
BugTraq ID: 92266
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92266
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/03/8
CopyrightCopyright (C) 2016 Greenbone AG

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