Debian DLA-2099-1 : checkstyle security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 133654

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Security researchers from Snyk discovered that the fix for CVE-2019-9658 was incomplete. Checkstyle, a development tool to help programmers write Java code that adheres to a coding standard, was still vulnerable to XML External Entity (XXE) injection.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 5.9-1+deb8u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your checkstyle 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 checkstyle, and checkstyle-doc packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/02/msg00008.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 133654

File Name: debian_DLA-2099.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/13/2020

Updated: 3/27/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-10782

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:checkstyle-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:checkstyle

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: 2/10/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/30/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-10782