Debian DSA-5137-1 : needrestart - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 161254

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Debian 10 / 11 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dsa-5137 advisory.

- needrestart 0.8 through 3.5 before 3.6 is prone to local privilege escalation. Regexes to detect the Perl, Python, and Ruby interpreters are not anchored, allowing a local user to escalate privileges when needrestart tries to detect if interpreters are using old source files. (CVE-2022-30688)

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 needrestart packages.

For the stable distribution (bullseye), this problem has been fixed in version 3.5-4+deb11u1.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 161254

File Name: debian_DSA-5137.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 5/18/2022

Updated: 5/18/2022

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: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-30688

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/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:10.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:11.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:needrestart

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/17/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-30688

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