Debian DLA-220-1 : dpkg security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 83498

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Jann Horn discovered that the source package integrity verification in dpkg-source can be bypassed via a specially crafted Debian source control file (.dsc). Note that this flaw only affects extraction of local Debian source packages via dpkg-source but not the installation of packages from the Debian archive.

For the oldoldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.15.12. This also fixes a similar bug discovered by Ansgar Burchardt and a bug in the same area discovered by Roger Leigh.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem was fixed in version 1.16.16.

The stable distribution (jessie) was not affected by this problem as it was fixed before release.

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 83498

File Name: debian_DLA-220.nasl

Version: 2.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 5/18/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:dselect, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libdpkg-dev, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:dpkg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:dpkg-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libdpkg-perl

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/15/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-0840

BID: 74039

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