Debian DSA-4528-1 : bird - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 129074

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Daniel McCarney discovered that the BIRD internet routing daemon incorrectly validated RFC 8203 messages in it's BGP daemon, resulting in a stack-based buffer overflow.

Solution

Upgrade the bird packages.

For the stable distribution (buster), this problem has been fixed in version 1.6.6-1+deb10u1. In addition this update fixes an incomplete revocation of privileges and a crash triggerable via the CLI (the latter two bugs are also fixed in the oldstable distribution (stretch) which is not affected by CVE-2019-16159 ).

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 129074

File Name: debian_DSA-4528.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 9/20/2019

Updated: 4/24/2024

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-2019-16159

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: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:10.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:bird

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/19/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/9/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-16159

DSA: 4528

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