Debian DLA-1487-1 : libtirpc security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 112226

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

CVE-2018-14622 Fix for egmentation fault due to pointer becoming NULL.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 0.2.5-1+deb8u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your libtirpc 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 libtirpc-dev, and libtirpc1 packages.

See Also

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

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00034.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 112226

File Name: debian_DLA-1487.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/4/2018

Updated: 8/13/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-14622

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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:libtirpc1, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libtirpc-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: 8/31/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-14622