Debian DLA-1447-1 : libidn security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 111388

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

An integer overflow vulnerability was discovered in libidn, the GNU library for Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs), in its Punycode handling (a Unicode characters to ASCII encoding) allowing a remote attacker to cause a denial of service against applications using the library.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 1.29-1+deb8u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your libidn 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: Critical

ID: 111388

File Name: debian_DLA-1447.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 7/30/2018

Updated: 9/2/2024

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

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-14062

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:libidn11-java, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libidn11, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:idn, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libidn11-dev

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/27/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-14062

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