Debian DLA-1794-1 : libspring-security-2.0-java security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 125270

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

A vulnerability was discovered in libspring-security-2.0-java, a modular Java/J2EE application security framework, when using SecureRandomFactoryBean#setSeed to configure a SecureRandom instance, resulting in insecure randomness.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.7.RELEASE-3+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libspring-security-2.0-java 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/2019/05/msg00026.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/libspring-security-2.0-java

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 125270

File Name: debian_DLA-1794.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/20/2019

Updated: 5/21/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

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-2019-3795

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: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libspring-security-core-2.0-java, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libspring-security-2.0-java-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libspring-security-ntlm-2.0-java, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libspring-security-portlet-2.0-java, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libspring-security-taglibs-2.0-java, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libspring-security-acl-2.0-java, 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: 5/19/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/9/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-3795