Debian DLA-1775-1 : phpbb3 security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 124597

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Colin Snover discovered a denial of service vulnerability in phpBB3, a full-featured web forum. Previous versions allowed users to run searches that might result in long execution times and load on larger boards when using the fulltext native search engine. To combat this, further restrictions were introduced on search queries.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 3.0.12-5+deb8u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your phpbb3 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 phpbb3, and phpbb3-l10n packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 124597

File Name: debian_DLA-1775.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 5/6/2019

Updated: 5/29/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-9826

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:phpbb3, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:phpbb3-l10n

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/4/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/2/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-9826

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