Debian DLA-1845-1 : dosbox security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 126511

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Several security vulnerabilities were discovered in DOSBox, an emulator for running old DOS programs.

CVE-2019-7165

A very long line inside a bat file would overflow the parsing buffer which could be used by an attacker to execute arbitrary code.

CVE-2019-12594

Insufficient access controls inside DOSBox allowed attackers to access resources on the host system and execute arbitrary code.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version 0.74-4+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your dosbox 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 dosbox package.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/07/msg00004.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 126511

File Name: debian_DLA-1845.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/8/2019

Updated: 5/10/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-7165

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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: 7/7/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/2/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-12594, CVE-2019-7165