Debian DLA-111-1 : cpio security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 82095

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Multiple issues have been identified in cpio, including a buffer overflow and multiple NULL pointer dereference, resulting at least in a denial of service and possibly also in an unwanted code execution.

This has been fixed in Debian 6 Squeeze with version 2.11-4+deb6u1 by applying the upstream patches.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected cpio, and cpio-win32 packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2014/12/msg00014.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze-lts/cpio

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 82095

File Name: debian_DLA-111.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/26/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:cpio, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:cpio-win32, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/15/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-9112

BID: 71248