Debian DLA-2052-1 : libbsd security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 132514

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

An issues has been found in libbsd, a package containing utility functions from BSD systems.

In function fgetwln() an off-by-one error could triggers a heap buffer overflow.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 0.7.0-2+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libbsd 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 libbsd-dev, libbsd0, and libbsd0-dbg packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 132514

File Name: debian_DLA-2052.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 12/31/2019

Updated: 4/2/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-2090

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libbsd-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libbsd0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libbsd0-dbg

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/30/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/13/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-2090

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