Debian DLA-1768-1 : checkstyle security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 124341

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

checkstyle was loading external DTDs by default, which is now disabled by default.

If needed it can be re-enabled by setting the system property checkstyle.enableExternalDtdLoad to true.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 5.9-1+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your checkstyle 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 checkstyle, and checkstyle-doc packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00029.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 124341

File Name: debian_DLA-1768.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/29/2019

Updated: 5/31/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-9658

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/28/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/11/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-9658