Vulnerabilities > CVE-2016-7392 - Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in Autotrace Project Autotrace 0.31.1
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
Heap-based buffer overflow in the pstoedit_suffix_table_init function in output-pstoedit.c in AutoTrace 0.31.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) via a crafted bmp image file.
Vulnerable Configurations
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Application | 1 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Nessus
NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DLA-621.NASL description Autotrace is a program for converting bitmaps to vector graphics. It had a bug that caused an out-of-bounds write. This was caused by not allocating sufficient memory to store the terminating NULL pointer in an array. For Debian 7 last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2016-09-16 plugin id 93543 published 2016-09-16 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/93543 title Debian DLA-621-1 : autotrace security update code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Debian Security Advisory DLA-621-1. The text # itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(93543); script_version("2.6"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/03/12"); script_cve_id("CVE-2016-7392"); script_name(english:"Debian DLA-621-1 : autotrace security update"); script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated packages."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "Autotrace is a program for converting bitmaps to vector graphics. It had a bug that caused an out-of-bounds write. This was caused by not allocating sufficient memory to store the terminating NULL pointer in an array. For Debian 7 'Wheezy', this problem have been fixed in version 0.31.1-16+deb7u1. We recommend that you upgrade your autotrace packages. NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2016/09/msg00014.html" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/autotrace" ); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Upgrade the affected packages."); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"); script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:autotrace"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libautotrace-dev"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libautotrace3"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/09/15"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/09/16"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("debian_package.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); flag = 0; if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"autotrace", reference:"0.31.1-16+deb7u1")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libautotrace-dev", reference:"0.31.1-16+deb7u1")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libautotrace3", reference:"0.31.1-16+deb7u1")) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:deb_report_get()); else security_warning(0); exit(0); } else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
NASL family Gentoo Local Security Checks NASL id GENTOO_GLSA-201708-09.NASL description The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201708-09 (AutoTrace: Multiple vulnerabilities) Heap-based buffer overflows have been discovered in the pstoedit_suffix_table_init and pnm_load_rawpbm functions of AutoTrace. Impact : Remote attackers, by enticing a user to process a crafted bmp image file, could cause a Denial of Service condition. Workaround : There is no known workaround at this time. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 102798 published 2017-08-28 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/102798 title GLSA-201708-09 : AutoTrace: Multiple vulnerabilities code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 201708-09. # # The advisory text is Copyright (C) 2001-2018 Gentoo Foundation, Inc. # and licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike # license. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(102798); script_version("$Revision: 3.2 $"); script_cvs_date("$Date: 2018/01/26 17:15:57 $"); script_cve_id("CVE-2016-7392", "CVE-2017-9153"); script_xref(name:"GLSA", value:"201708-09"); script_name(english:"GLSA-201708-09 : AutoTrace: Multiple vulnerabilities"); script_summary(english:"Checks for updated package(s) in /var/db/pkg"); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value: "The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201708-09 (AutoTrace: Multiple vulnerabilities) Heap-based buffer overflows have been discovered in the pstoedit_suffix_table_init and pnm_load_rawpbm functions of AutoTrace. Impact : Remote attackers, by enticing a user to process a crafted bmp image file, could cause a Denial of Service condition. Workaround : There is no known workaround at this time." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-09" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value: "Gentoo has discontinued support for AutoTrace. We recommend that users unmerge AutoTrace: # emerge --unmerge 'media-gfx/autotrace'" ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:autotrace"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:gentoo:linux"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/08/26"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2017/08/28"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc."); script_family(english:"Gentoo Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Gentoo/release", "Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("qpkg.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); if (!get_kb_item("Host/Gentoo/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Gentoo"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); flag = 0; if (qpkg_check(package:"media-gfx/autotrace", unaffected:make_list(), vulnerable:make_list("le 0.31.1-r8"))) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:qpkg_report_get()); else security_hole(0); exit(0); } else { tested = qpkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "AutoTrace"); }
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1375255
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/09/10/autotrace-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-pstoedit_suffix_table_init-output-pstoedit-c/
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92907
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/12/7
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/10/3
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-09