Debian DSA-4818-1 : sympa - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 144594

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Sympa, a mailing list manager, which could result in local privilege escalation, denial of service or unauthorized access via the SOAP API.

Additionally to mitigate CVE-2020-26880 the sympa_newaliases-wrapper is no longer installed setuid root by default. A new Debconf question is introduced to allow setuid installations in setups where it is needed.

Solution

Upgrade the sympa packages.

For the stable distribution (buster), these problems have been fixed in version 6.2.40~dfsg-1+deb10u1.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 144594

File Name: debian_DSA-4818.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 12/24/2020

Updated: 1/31/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-10936

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:10.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:sympa

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: 12/23/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/24/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-10936, CVE-2020-26932, CVE-2020-29668, CVE-2020-9369

DSA: 4818

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