Debian DSA-5075-1 : minetest - security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 158043

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

The remote Debian 10 / 11 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-5075 advisory.

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Minetest, a sandbox video game and game creation system.
These issues may allow attackers to manipulate game mods and grant them an unfair advantage over other players. These flaws could also be abused for a denial of service attack against a Minetest server or if user input is passed directly to minetest.deserialize without serializing it first, then a malicious user could run Lua code in the server environment. For the oldstable distribution (buster), these problems have been fixed in version 0.4.17.1+repack-1+deb10u1. For the stable distribution (bullseye), these problems have been fixed in version 5.3.0+repack-2.1+deb11u1. We recommend that you upgrade your minetest packages.
For the detailed security status of minetest please refer to its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/minetest

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Debian security advisory.

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

Solution

Upgrade the minetest packages.

For the stable distribution (bullseye), these problems have been fixed in version 5.3.0+repack-2.1+deb11u1.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 158043

File Name: debian_DSA-5075.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 2/14/2022

Updated: 1/24/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-24300

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:11.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:10.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:minetest, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:minetest-server, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:minetest-data

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/14/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/2/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-24300, CVE-2022-24301

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