Debian DLA-2142-1 : slirp security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 134576

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that there was a buffer overflow vulnerability in slirp, a SLIP/PPP emulator for using a dial up shell account. This was caused by the incorrect usage of return values from snprintf(3).

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this issue has been fixed in slirp version 1:1.0.17-7+deb8u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your slirp 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 slirp package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 134576

File Name: debian_DLA-2142.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 3/16/2020

Updated: 3/22/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-8608

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.6

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/13/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/6/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-8608

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