Debian DSA-5344-1 : heimdal - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 171237

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Debian 11 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-5344 advisory.

- The fix for CVE-2022-3437 included changing memcmp to be constant time and a workaround for a compiler bug by adding != 0 comparisons to the result of memcmp. When these patches were backported to the heimdal-7.7.1 and heimdal-7.8.0 branches (and possibly other branches) a logic inversion sneaked in causing the validation of message integrity codes in gssapi/arcfour to be inverted. (CVE-2022-45142)

- A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability was found in Samba within the GSSAPI unwrap_des() and unwrap_des3() routines of Heimdal. The DES and Triple-DES decryption routines in the Heimdal GSSAPI library allow a length-limited write buffer overflow on malloc() allocated memory when presented with a maliciously small packet. This flaw allows a remote user to send specially crafted malicious data to the application, possibly resulting in a denial of service (DoS) attack. (CVE-2022-3437)

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 heimdal packages.

For the stable distribution (bullseye), this problem has been fixed in version 7.7.0+dfsg-2+deb11u3.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1030849

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

https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5344

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-3437

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-45142

https://packages.debian.org/source/bullseye/heimdal

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 171237

File Name: debian_DSA-5344.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/9/2023

Updated: 3/21/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-45142

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:11.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:heimdal-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:heimdal-multidev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libotp0-heimdal, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:heimdal-docs, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libkafs0-heimdal, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:heimdal-kdc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libheimntlm0-heimdal, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libhx509-5-heimdal, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libheimbase1-heimdal, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgssapi3-heimdal, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libkdc2-heimdal, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libasn1-8-heimdal, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:heimdal-servers, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libkadm5clnt7-heimdal, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libkrb5-26-heimdal, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:heimdal-kcm, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libhdb9-heimdal, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libkadm5srv8-heimdal, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsl0-heimdal, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libhcrypto4-heimdal, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libwind0-heimdal, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:heimdal-clients, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libroken18-heimdal

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/8/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/25/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-3437, CVE-2022-45142