Debian DLA-2551-1 : slirp security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 146372

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Two issues have been found in slirp, a SLIP/PPP emulator using a dial up shell account.

CVE-2020-7039

Due to mismanagement of memory, a heap-based buffer overflow or other out-of-bounds access might happen, which can lead to a DoS or potential execute arbitrary code.

CVE-2020-8608

Prevent a buffer overflow vulnerability due to incorrect usage of return values from snprintf.

For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 1:1.0.17-8+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your slirp packages.

For the detailed security status of slirp please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/slirp

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: 146372

File Name: debian_DLA-2551.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 2/10/2021

Updated: 1/22/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous 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:9.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/9/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/16/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-7039, CVE-2020-8608

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