Debian DLA-1092-1 : libarchive security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 103092

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that there was a denial of service vulnerability in the libarchive multi-format compression library. A specially crafted .xar archive could cause via a heap-based buffer over-read.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', this issue has been fixed in libarchive version 3.0.4-3+wheezy6+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libarchive 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 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 103092

File Name: debian_DLA-1092.nasl

Version: 3.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 9/11/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:bsdtar, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libarchive-dev, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libarchive12, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:bsdcpio

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/8/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-14166

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