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Debian DLA-1969-1 : file security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 130182

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

An issue has been found in file, a tool to determine file types by using magic numbers.

The number of CDF_VECTOR elements had to be restricted in order to prevent a heap-based buffer overflow (4-byte out-of-bounds write).

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 1:5.22+15-2+deb8u6.

We recommend that you upgrade your file 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/2019/10/msg00032.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 130182

File Name: debian_DLA-1969.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/24/2019

Updated: 4/17/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-18218

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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:file, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:file-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libmagic-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libmagic1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-magic, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python3-magic, 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: 10/23/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/21/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-18218