Debian DLA-223-1 : nbd security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 83500

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

A vulnerability has been discovered in nbd-server, the server for the Linux Network Block Device.

CVE-2015-0847

Tuomas Räsänen discovered that unsafe signal handling is present in nbd-server. This vulnerability could be exploited by a remote client to cause a denial of service.

For the oldoldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 1:2.9.16-8+squeeze2.

For the oldstable, stable, and testing distributions, these problems will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your nbd-server packages.

-- Wouter Verhelst

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/2015/05/msg00006.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 83500

File Name: debian_DLA-223.nasl

Version: 2.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/18/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:nbd-client, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:nbd-client-udeb, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:nbd-server, 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: 5/17/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-0847

BID: 74557