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Debian DLA-1470-1 : confuse security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 111983

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

An out of bound read was discoverd in libConfuse, a configuration file parser library.

CVE-2018-14447

An out of bound read in trim_whitespace, fixed thanks to Sebastian Roland <[email protected]>.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 2.7-5+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your confuse 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/2018/08/msg00017.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/confuse

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 111983

File Name: debian_DLA-1470.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/20/2018

Updated: 8/16/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-14447

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libconfuse0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libconfuse-common, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libconfuse-dev

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: 8/18/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-14447