Debian dla-3741 : engrampa - security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 191022

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-3741 advisory.

- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian LTS Advisory DLA-3741-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/lts/security/ Thorsten Alteholz February 26, 2024 https://wiki.debian.org/LTS
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------

Package : engrampa Version : 1.20.2-1+deb10u1 CVE ID : CVE-2023-52138


It was discovered that engrampa, an archive manager for the MATE desktop environment was susceptible to path traversal when handling CPIO archives.


For Debian 10 buster, this problem has been fixed in version 1.20.2-1+deb10u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your engrampa packages.

For the detailed security status of engrampa please refer to its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/engrampa

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS

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 engrampa packages.

See Also

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

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-52138

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 191022

File Name: debian_DLA-3741.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/26/2024

Updated: 1/22/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-52138

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.6

Temporal Score: 8.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:engrampa, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:engrampa-common, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:10.0

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: 2/26/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/5/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-52138