Debian DSA-3075-1 : drupal7 - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 79362

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Synopsis

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

Description

Two vulnerabilities were discovered in Drupal, a fully-featured content management framework. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following issues :

- CVE-2014-9015 Aaron Averill discovered that a specially crafted request can give a user access to another user's session, allowing an attacker to hijack a random session.

- CVE-2014-9016 Michael Cullum, Javier Nieto and Andres Rojas Guerrero discovered that the password hashing API allows an attacker to send specially crafted requests resulting in CPU and memory exhaustion. This may lead to the site becoming unavailable or unresponsive (denial of service).

Custom configured session.inc and password.inc need to be audited as well to verify if they are prone to these vulnerabilities. More information can be found in the upstream advisory at

Solution

Upgrade the drupal7 packages.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 7.14-2+deb7u8.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 79362

File Name: debian_DSA-3075.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 11/21/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:drupal7, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

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: 11/20/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-9015, CVE-2014-9016

BID: 71195

DSA: 3075

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