Debian DLA-3132-1 : snakeyaml - LTS security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 165626

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Debian 10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dla-3132 advisory.

- The package org.yaml:snakeyaml from 0 and before 1.31 are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) due missing to nested depth limitation for collections. (CVE-2022-25857)

- Using snakeYAML to parse untrusted YAML files may be vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks (DOS). If the parser is running on user supplied input, an attacker may supply content that causes the parser to crash by stackoverflow. (CVE-2022-38749, CVE-2022-38750, CVE-2022-38751)

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 snakeyaml packages.

For Debian 10 buster, these problems have been fixed in version 1.23-1+deb10u1.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1019218

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

https://www.debian.org/lts/security/2022/dla-3132

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-25857

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-38749

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-38750

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-38751

https://packages.debian.org/source/buster/snakeyaml

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 165626

File Name: debian_DLA-3132.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/3/2022

Updated: 10/10/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-25857

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 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:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libyaml-snake-java, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libyaml-snake-java-doc, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:10.0

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: 10/3/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/30/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-25857, CVE-2022-38749, CVE-2022-38750, CVE-2022-38751