Debian DLA-935-1 : lxterminal security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 100107

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that there was a local denial of service vulnerability in lxterminal, the terminal emulator for the LXDE desktop environment.

This was caused by an insecure use of temporary files for a socket file.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', this issue has been fixed in lxterminal version 0.1.11-4+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your lxterminal 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.

Solution

Upgrade the affected lxterminal, and lxterminal-dbg packages.

See Also

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/lxterminal

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/05/msg00005.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 100107

File Name: debian_DLA-935.nasl

Version: 3.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/11/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:lxterminal-dbg, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:lxterminal

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/10/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-10369