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Debian DLA-1600-1 : libarchive security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 119289

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Multiple security vulnerabilities were found in libarchive, a multi-format archive and compression library. Heap-based buffer over-reads, NULL pointer dereferences and out-of-bounds reads allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via specially crafted archive files.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version 3.1.2-11+deb8u4.

We recommend that you upgrade your libarchive 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/msg00037.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 119289

File Name: debian_DLA-1600.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/30/2018

Updated: 7/18/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-5601

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:bsdtar, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libarchive-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libarchive13, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:bsdcpio, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0

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: 11/29/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/20/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8915, CVE-2016-10209, CVE-2016-10349, CVE-2016-10350, CVE-2016-8687, CVE-2016-8688, CVE-2016-8689, CVE-2017-14166, CVE-2017-14501, CVE-2017-14502, CVE-2017-14503, CVE-2017-5601