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Debian DLA-1709-1 : waagent security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 122824

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Francis McBratney discovered that the Windows Azure Linux Agent created swap files with world-readable permissions, resulting in information disclosure.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 2.2.18-3~deb8u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your waagent 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 waagent package.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00011.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 122824

File Name: debian_DLA-1709.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/14/2019

Updated: 6/14/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-0804

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/13/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/9/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-0804