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Debian DLA-2929-1 : ujson - LTS security update
medium Nessus Plugin ID 158510
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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-2929 advisory.- UltraJSON (aka ujson) through 5.1.0 has a stack-based buffer overflow in Buffer_AppendIndentUnchecked (called from encode). Exploitation can, for example, use a large amount of indentation. (CVE-2021-45958)
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 ujson packages.For Debian 9 stretch, this problem has been fixed in version 1.35-1+deb9u1.
See Also
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/ujson
https://www.debian.org/lts/security/2022/dla-2929
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 158510
File Name: debian_DLA-2929.nasl
Version: 1.3
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Debian Local Security Checks
Published: 3/2/2022
Updated: 11/7/2023
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 4.4
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4.3
Temporal Score: 3.4
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-45958
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5.5
Temporal Score: 5
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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:python3-ujson, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-ujson, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python3-ujson-dbg, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-ujson-dbg
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: 3/1/2022
Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/1/2022
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2021-45958