Debian DLA-3670-1 : minizip - LTS security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 186332

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Debian 10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dla-3670 advisory.

- MiniZip in zlib through 1.3 has an integer overflow and resultant heap-based buffer overflow in zipOpenNewFileInZip4_64 via a long filename, comment, or extra field. NOTE: MiniZip is not a supported part of the zlib product. (CVE-2023-45853)

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 minizip packages.

For Debian 10 buster, this problem has been fixed in version 1.1-8+deb10u1.

See Also

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

https://www.debian.org/lts/security/2023/dla-3670

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-45853

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 186332

File Name: debian_DLA-3670.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/28/2023

Updated: 11/28/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-45853

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:10.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libminizip-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:minizip, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libminizip1

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/27/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/14/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-45853