Debian DLA-2837-1 : gmp - LTS security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 155822

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Debian 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dla-2837 advisory.

- GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library (GMP) through 6.2.1 has an mpz/inp_raw.c integer overflow and resultant buffer overflow via crafted input, leading to a segmentation fault on 32-bit platforms.
(CVE-2021-43618)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade the gmp packages.

For Debian 9 stretch, this problem has been fixed in version 2

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=994405

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/gmp

https://www.debian.org/lts/security/2021/dla-2837

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-43618

https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/gmp

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 155822

File Name: debian_DLA-2837.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/3/2021

Updated: 11/22/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-43618

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgmpxx4ldbl, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgmp3-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgmp-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgmp10, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgmp10-doc

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: 12/2/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/15/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-43618