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Debian DLA-1580-1 : systemd security update
high Nessus Plugin ID 119039
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Synopsis
The remote Debian host is missing a security update.Description
systemd was found to suffer from multiple security vulnerabilities ranging from denial of service attacks to possible root privilege escalation.CVE-2018-1049
A race condition exists between .mount and .automount units such that automount requests from kernel may not be serviced by systemd resulting in kernel holding the mountpoint and any processes that try to use said mount will hang. A race condition like this may lead to denial of service, until mount points are unmounted.
CVE-2018-15686
A vulnerability in unit_deserialize of systemd allows an attacker to supply arbitrary state across systemd re-execution via NotifyAccess.
This can be used to improperly influence systemd execution and possibly lead to root privilege escalation.
CVE-2018-15688
A buffer overflow vulnerability in the dhcp6 client of systemd allows a malicious dhcp6 server to overwrite heap memory in systemd-networkd, which is not enabled by default in Debian.
For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version 215-17+deb8u8.
We recommend that you upgrade your systemd 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/2018/11/msg00017.html
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 119039
File Name: debian_DLA-1580.nasl
Version: 1.8
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Debian Local Security Checks
Published: 11/20/2018
Updated: 7/22/2024
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: High
Base Score: 7.2
Temporal Score: 5.6
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-15686
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 8.8
Temporal Score: 7.9
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-15688
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpam-systemd, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsystemd-journal-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsystemd-login-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsystemd0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:udev-udeb, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:systemd-sysv, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libudev1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsystemd-id128-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gir1.2-gudev-1.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsystemd-login0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libudev-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python3-systemd, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:systemd-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsystemd-journal0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:udev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsystemd-daemon-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgudev-1.0-0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsystemd-daemon0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgudev-1.0-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libudev1-udeb, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsystemd-id128-0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsystemd-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:systemd
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: 11/19/2018