Debian DLA-1039-1 : rkhunter security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 101960

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

CVE-2017-7480 The original patch introduces new regex to better check for allowed download URLs. Other versions of the package in Jessie, Stretch and Sid don't apply that patch but just disable the download of everything by default via rkhunter.conf. In order to make this version consistent with all the other distributions and don't break existing installations, this will be done in Wheezy as well.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 1.4.0-1+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your rkhunter 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 rkhunter package.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/07/msg00032.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 101960

File Name: debian_DLA-1039.nasl

Version: 3.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/26/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

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: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:rkhunter, 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: 7/25/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-7480