Debian DLA-1338-1 : beep security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 108814

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that there was a local privilege escalation vulnerability in beep, an 'advanced PC speaker beeper'.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', this issue has been fixed in beep version 1.3-3+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your beep 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 beep, and beep-udeb packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 108814

File Name: debian_DLA-1338.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 4/4/2018

Updated: 11/21/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-0492

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:beep, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:beep-udeb, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/3/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-0492

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