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Debian DLA-1207-1 : erlang security update (ROBOT)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 105325

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

An erlang TLS server configured with cipher suites using RSA key exchange, may be vulnerable to an Adaptive Chosen Ciphertext attack (AKA Bleichenbacher attack) against RSA, which when exploited, may result in plaintext recovery of encrypted messages and/or a Man-in-the-middle (MiTM) attack, despite the attacker not having gained access to the server's private key itself.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 15.b.1-dfsg-4+deb7u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your erlang 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.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00010.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 105325

File Name: debian_DLA-1207.nasl

Version: 3.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/18/2017

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:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:erlang-mode, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:erlang-runtime-tools, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:erlang-ssh, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:erlang-jinterface, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:erlang-erl-docgen, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:erlang, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:erlang-gs, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:erlang-manpages, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:erlang-os-mon, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:erlang-nox, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:erlang-inviso, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:erlang-common-test, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:erlang-reltool, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:erlang-crypto, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:erlang-ic-java, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:erlang-observer, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:erlang-edoc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:erlang-webtool, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:erlang-x11, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:erlang-base, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:erlang-asn1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:erlang-snmp, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:erlang-base-hipe, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:erlang-corba, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:erlang-parsetools, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:erlang-xmerl, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:erlang-et, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:erlang-pman, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:erlang-eunit, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:erlang-odbc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:erlang-wx, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:erlang-ic, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:erlang-appmon, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:erlang-examples, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:erlang-toolbar, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:erlang-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:erlang-percept, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:erlang-tv, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:erlang-eldap, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:erlang-test-server, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:erlang-mnesia, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:erlang-megaco, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:erlang-inets, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:erlang-src, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:erlang-typer, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:erlang-dialyzer, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:erlang-tools, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:erlang-diameter, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:erlang-syntax-tools, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:erlang-public-key, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:erlang-ssl, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:erlang-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:erlang-debugger

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/15/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-1000385