Debian DSA-5501-1 : gnome-shell - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 181565

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Debian 12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dsa-5501 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 gnome-shell packages.

For the stable distribution (bookworm), this problem has been fixed in version 43.6-1~deb12u2.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1052067

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/gnome-shell

https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5501

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-43090

https://packages.debian.org/source/bookworm/gnome-shell

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 181565

File Name: debian_DSA-5501.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/19/2023

Updated: 9/27/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-43090

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gnome-shell, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gnome-shell-common, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gnome-shell-extension-prefs, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:12.0

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: 9/18/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/18/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-43090