Debian DSA-3850-1 : rtmpdump - security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 100164

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Dave McDaniel discovered multiple vulnerabilities in rtmpdump, a small dumper/library for RTMP media streams, which may result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed stream is dumped.

Solution

Upgrade the rtmpdump packages.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 2.4+20150115.gita107cef-1+deb8u1.

For the upcoming stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 2.4+20151223.gitfa8646d.1-1.

See Also

https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/rtmpdump

https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3850

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 100164

File Name: debian_DSA-3850.nasl

Version: 3.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/15/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:rtmpdump

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/12/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8270, CVE-2015-8271, CVE-2015-8272

DSA: 3850