Debian DLA-1805-1 : minissdpd security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 125411

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that there was a use after free vulnerability in minissdpd, a network device discovery daemon. A remote attacker could abuse this to crash the process.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this issue has been fixed in minissdpd version 1.2.20130907-3+deb8u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your minissdpd 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 minissdpd package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 125411

File Name: debian_DLA-1805.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 5/28/2019

Updated: 5/21/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-12106

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/26/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/15/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-12106

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