Debian DLA-2011-1 : xmlrpc-epi security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 131330

Language:

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

An issue in xmlrpc-epi, an XML-RPC request serialisation/deserialisation library, has been found.

An integer signedness error in the simplestring_addn function in simplestring.c in xmlrpc-epi could be used for a heap based buffer overflow and possibly execution of arbitrary code.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 0.54.2-1.1+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your xmlrpc-epi 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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 131330

File Name: debian_DLA-2011.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 11/27/2019

Updated: 4/9/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, 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-2016-6296

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:libxmlrpc-epi-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libxmlrpc-epi0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libxmlrpc-epi0-dbg

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: 11/26/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/25/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-6296

Detections

Analytics