Denial of service - CVE-2015-3885

 

Denial of service - CVE-2015-3885

Published: October 17, 2016


Vulnerability identifier: #VU1004
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-3885
CWE-ID: CWE-120
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor:
Affected software:

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote unauthenticated user to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The weakness exists due to buffer overflow caused by processing of malformed XMP or RAW image and allowing attackers to trigger the affected service deny or execute arbitrary code.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service or arbitrary code execution on the vulnerable system.

How to mitigate CVE-2015-3885

Update stable distribution (jessie) to 3.15.4-4.2+deb8u1.

Update testing distribution (stretch) to 3.17.0+ds1-3.

Update unstable distribution (sid) to3.17.0+ds1-3.


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