Debian DSA-3956-1 : connman - security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 102792

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Synopsis

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

Description

Security consultants in NRI Secure Technologies discovered a stack overflow vulnerability in ConnMan, a network manager for embedded devices. An attacker with control of the DNS responses to the DNS proxy in ConnMan might crash the service and, in same cases, remotely execute arbitrary commands in the host running the service.

Solution

Upgrade the connman packages.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1.21-1.2+deb8u1.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.33-3+deb9u1.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 102792

File Name: debian_DSA-3956.nasl

Version: 3.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 8/28/2017

Updated: 1/4/2021

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: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:connman

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/27/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-12865

DSA: 3956

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