Debian DLA-2046-1 : opensc security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 132406

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

An issue was discovered in libopensc/card-setcos.c in OpenSC, which has an incorrect read operation during parsing of a SETCOS file attribute.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 0.16.0-3+deb8u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your opensc 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 opensc, and opensc-pkcs11 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 132406

File Name: debian_DLA-2046.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 12/27/2019

Updated: 4/2/2024

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: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-19479

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:opensc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:opensc-pkcs11

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/25/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/1/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-19479

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