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Debian DLA-1866-2 : glib2.0 regression update

high Nessus Plugin ID 127475

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Simon McVittie spotted a memory leak regression in the way CVE-2019-13012 had been resolved for glib2.0 in Debian jessie.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 2.42.1-1+deb8u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your glib2.0 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/2019/08/msg00004.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/glib2.0

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 127475

File Name: debian_DLA-1866.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/12/2019

Updated: 5/7/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, 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:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-13012

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:H/A:N

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libglib2.0-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libglib2.0-data, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libglib2.0-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libglib2.0-0-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libglib2.0-0-refdbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libglib2.0-bin, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libglib2.0-tests, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libglib2.0-0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/5/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/28/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-13012