Debian DSA-2782-1 : polarssl - several vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 70533

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Synopsis

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

Description

Multiple security issues have been discovered in PolarSSL, a lightweight crypto and SSL/TLS library :

- CVE-2013-4623 Jack Lloyd discovered a denial of service vulnerability in the parsing of PEM-encoded certificates.

- CVE-2013-5914 Paul Brodeur and TrustInSoft discovered a buffer overflow in the ssl_read_record() function, allowing the potential execution of arbitrary code.

- CVE-2013-5915 Cyril Arnaud and Pierre-Alain Fouque discovered timing attacks against the RSA implementation.

Solution

Upgrade the polarssl packages.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems will be fixed in version 1.2.9-1~deb6u1 soon (due to a technical limitation the updates cannot be released synchronously).

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 1.2.9-1~deb7u1.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 70533

File Name: debian_DSA-2782.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 10/22/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:polarssl

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/20/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4623, CVE-2013-5914, CVE-2013-5915

BID: 61764, 62771

DSA: 2782

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