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Debian DLA-153-1 : e2fsprogs security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 82136

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

A broken (or maliciously crafted) file system could trigger a buffer overflow in e2fsprogs.

This update has been prepared by Nguyen Cong.

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 packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2015/02/msg00007.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze-lts/e2fsprogs

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 82136

File Name: debian_DLA-153.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/26/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:e2fsprogs-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:e2fsprogs-udeb, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libcomerr2, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libss2, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:e2fslibs-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libss2-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:e2fsck-static, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:comerr-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:e2fslibs-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ss-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:e2fsprogs, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:e2fslibs, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libcomerr2-dbg

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/16/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-0247

BID: 72520