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Debian DLA-97-1 : eglibc security update
medium Nessus Plugin ID 82242
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Synopsis
The remote Debian host is missing a security update.Description
CVE-2012-6656Fix validation check when converting from ibm930 to utf. When converting IBM930 code with iconv(), if IBM930 code which includes invalid multibyte character '0xffff' is specified, then iconv() segfaults.
CVE-2014-6040
Crashes on invalid input in IBM gconv modules [BZ #17325] These changes are based on the fix for BZ #14134 in commit 6e230d11837f3ae7b375ea69d7905f0d18eb79e5.
CVE-2014-7817
The function wordexp() fails to properly handle the WRDE_NOCMD flag when processing arithmetic inputs in the form of '$((... ``))' where '...' can be anything valid. The backticks in the arithmetic epxression are evaluated by in a shell even if WRDE_NOCMD forbade command substitution. This allows an attacker to attempt to pass dangerous commands via constructs of the above form, and bypass the WRDE_NOCMD flag. This patch fixes this by checking for WRDE_NOCMD in exec_comm(), the only place that can execute a shell. All other checks for WRDE_NOCMD are superfluous and removed.
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/2014/11/msg00015.html
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 82242
File Name: debian_DLA-97.nasl
Version: 1.11
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Debian Local Security Checks
Published: 3/26/2015
Updated: 1/11/2021
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 5.9
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:eglibc-source, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:glibc-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libc-bin, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libc-dev-bin, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libc6, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libc6-amd64, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libc6-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libc6-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libc6-dev-amd64, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libc6-dev-i386, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libc6-i386, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libc6-i686, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libc6-pic, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libc6-prof, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libc6-udeb, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libc6-xen, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libnss-dns-udeb, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libnss-files-udeb, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:locales, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:locales-all, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:nscd, 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: 11/29/2014