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Debian DLA-2005-1 : tnef security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 131430

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

In tnef, an attacker may be able to write to the victim's .ssh/authorized_keys file via an e-mail message with a crafted winmail.dat application/ms-tnef attachment, because of a heap-based buffer over-read involving strdup.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.9-1+deb8u4.

We recommend that you upgrade your tnef 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 tnef package.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/11/msg00035.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 131430

File Name: debian_DLA-2005.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/3/2019

Updated: 4/9/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-18849

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:tnef, 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: 11/29/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/11/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-18849