Summary
The remote host is missing an update to camlimages announced via advisory DSA 1857-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201857-1
Insight
Tielei Wang discovered that CamlImages, an open source image processing library, suffers from several integer overflows which may lead to a potentially exploitable heap overflow and result in arbitrary code execution. This advisory addresses issues with the reading of JPEG and GIF Images, while DSA 1832-1 addressed the issue with PNG images.
For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.20-8+etch2.
For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1:2.2.0-4+lenny2.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1:3.0.1-3.
We recommend that you upgrade your camlimages package.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2009-2660 -
CVSS Base Score: 6.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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