Debian DLA-959-1 : libical security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 100479

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that there was a use-after-free vulnerability in the libical iCalendar library. Remote attackers could cause a denial of service and possibly read heap memory via a specially crafted .ICS file.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', this issue has been fixed in libical version 0.48-2+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libical 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 libical-dbg, libical-dev, and libical0 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 100479

File Name: debian_DLA-959.nasl

Version: 3.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 5/30/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libical0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libical-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libical-dbg, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/28/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-5824, CVE-2016-9584

Detections

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