Debian DSA-5369-1 : syslog-ng - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 172130

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Debian 11 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dsa-5369 advisory.

- An integer overflow in the RFC3164 parser in One Identity syslog-ng 3.0 through 3.37 allows remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service via crafted syslog input that is mishandled by the tcp or network function. syslog-ng Premium Edition 7.0.30 and syslog-ng Store Box 6.10.0 are also affected.
(CVE-2022-38725)

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 syslog-ng packages.

For the stable distribution (bullseye), this problem has been fixed in version 3.28.1-2+deb11u1.

See Also

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/syslog-ng

https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5369

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-38725

https://packages.debian.org/source/bullseye/syslog-ng

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 172130

File Name: debian_DSA-5369.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/6/2023

Updated: 8/14/2024

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: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-38725

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:11.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:syslog-ng-mod-http, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:syslog-ng-mod-geoip2, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:syslog-ng-mod-rdkafka, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:syslog-ng-mod-examples, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:syslog-ng-mod-map-value-pairs, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:syslog-ng-mod-xml-parser, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:syslog-ng-mod-sql, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:syslog-ng-mod-stomp, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:syslog-ng-mod-amqp, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:syslog-ng-mod-riemann, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:syslog-ng-mod-redis, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:syslog-ng-mod-getent, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:syslog-ng-mod-mongodb, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:syslog-ng-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:syslog-ng-mod-add-contextual-data, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:syslog-ng-mod-graphite, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:syslog-ng-mod-python, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:syslog-ng-mod-snmp, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:syslog-ng-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:syslog-ng, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:syslog-ng-core, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:syslog-ng-mod-slog, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:syslog-ng-mod-stardate, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:syslog-ng-mod-extra, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:syslog-ng-mod-smtp

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: 3/5/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/23/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-38725