Debian DLA-2254-1 : alpine security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 137841

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

CVE-2020-14929

Alpine before 2.23 silently proceeds to use an insecure connection after a /tls is sent in certain circumstances involving PREAUTH, which is a less secure behavior than the alternative of closing the connection and letting the user decide what they would like to do.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 2.11+dfsg1-3+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your alpine 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 packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00025.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 137841

File Name: debian_DLA-2254.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/26/2020

Updated: 3/5/2024

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: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-14929

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:alpine-pico, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:alpine-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:alpine, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:alpine-doc, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:pilot

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/25/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/19/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-14929