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Debian DLA-1681-1 : gsoap security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 122266

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that there was a denial of service vulnerability in gsoap a C/C++ language binding used for SOAP-based web services.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this issue has been fixed in gsoap version 2.8.17-1+deb8u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your gsoap packages. Thanks to Mattias Ellert <[email protected]> for their assistance in preparing this update.

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/2019/02/msg00027.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 122266

File Name: debian_DLA-1681.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/19/2019

Updated: 2/18/2025

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-7659

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

CVSS Score Source: manual

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gsoap-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgsoap5, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gsoap-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gsoap, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgsoap-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgsoap-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: 2/18/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/9/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-7659