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Debian DSA-5416-1 : connman - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 176497

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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-5416 advisory.

 It was discovered that there was a potential buffer overflow and denial of service vulnerabilty in the gdhcp client implementation of connman, a command-line network manager designed for use on embedded devices. For the stable distribution (bullseye), this problem has been fixed in version 1.36-2.2+deb11u2.
 We recommend that you upgrade your connman packages. For the detailed security status of connman please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/connman

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Debian security advisory.

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 connman packages.

For the stable distribution (bullseye), this problem has been fixed in version 1.36-2.2+deb11u2.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1034393

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

https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5416

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-28488

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 176497

File Name: debian_DSA-5416.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/30/2023

Updated: 1/24/2025

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: 6.1

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-28488

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/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:connman-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:connman-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:connman-vpn, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:connman

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: 5/31/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/12/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-28488