Debian DLA-1511-1 : reportbug update

high Nessus Plugin ID 117619

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Reportbug, a tool designed to make the reporting of bugs in Debian easier, was further enhanced to automatically detect bug reports for potential regressions caused by a security update. After user confirmation an additional email with a copy of the report will be sent to the debian-lts mailing list.

This change requires two new dependencies, python-requests and python-apt.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 6.6.3+deb8u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your reportbug 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 python-reportbug, and reportbug packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 117619

File Name: debian_DLA-1511.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 9/21/2018

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-reportbug, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:reportbug, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/20/2018

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