Debian DLA-2846-1 : raptor2 - LTS security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 156160

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-2846 advisory.

- A malformed input file can lead to a segfault due to an out of bounds array access in raptor_xml_writer_start_element_common. (CVE-2020-25713)

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 raptor2 packages.

For Debian 9 stretch, this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.14-1+deb9u2.

See Also

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/raptor2

https://www.debian.org/lts/security/2021/dla-2846

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-25713

https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/raptor2

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 156160

File Name: debian_DLA-2846.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/17/2021

Updated: 12/17/2021

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: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-25713

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:raptor2-utils, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libraptor2-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libraptor2-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libraptor2-0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libraptor2-0-dbg

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/14/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/11/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-25713