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Debian DLA-1977-1 : libvncserver security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 130406

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

LibVNC contained a memory leak (CWE-655) in VNC server code, which allowed an attacker to read stack memory and could be abused for information disclosure.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.9+dfsg2-6.1+deb8u6.

We recommend that you upgrade your libvncserver 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/msg00039.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 130406

File Name: debian_DLA-1977.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/31/2019

Updated: 1/11/2021

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:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-15681

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:H/I:N/A:N

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libvncserver-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libvncclient0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libvncserver0-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libvncclient0-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libvncserver-config, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:linuxvnc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libvncserver0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/30/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/29/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-15681

IAVA: 2020-A-0381