Debian DSA-3297-1 : unattended-upgrades - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 84449

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

It was discovered that unattended-upgrades, a script for automatic installation of security upgrades, did not properly authenticate downloaded packages when the force-confold or force-confnew dpkg options were enabled via the DPkg::Options::* apt configuration.

Solution

Upgrade the unattended-upgrades packages.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 0.79.5+wheezy2.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 0.83.3.2+deb8u1.

See Also

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/unattended-upgrades

https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/unattended-upgrades

https://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3297

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 84449

File Name: debian_DSA-3297.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/30/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:unattended-upgrades, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/29/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-1330

DSA: 3297