Debian DSA-2576-1 : trousers - denial of service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 63028

Synopsis

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

Description

Andy Lutomirski discovered that tcsd (the TPM userspace daemon) was missing input validation. Using carefully crafted input, it can lead to a denial of service by making the daemon crash with a segmentation fault.

Solution

Upgrade the trousers packages.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 0.3.5-2+squeeze1.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=692649

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/trousers

https://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2576

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 63028

File Name: debian_DSA-2576.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/26/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:trousers, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

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: 11/23/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-0698

BID: 55459

DSA: 2576