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Debian DLA-297-1 : wesnoth-1.8 security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 85585

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Wesnoth implements a text preprocessing language that is used in conjunction with its own game scripting language. It also has a built-in Lua interpreter and API. Both the Lua API and the preprocessor make use of the same function (filesystem::get_wml_location()) to resolve file paths so that only content from the user's data directory can be read.

However, the function did not explicitly disallow files with the .pbl extension. The contents of these files could thus be stored in saved game files or even transmitted directly to other users in a networked game. Among the information that's compromised is a user-defined passphrase used to authenticate uploads to the game's content server.

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/2015/08/msg00011.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze-lts/wesnoth-1.8

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 85585

File Name: debian_DLA-297.nasl

Version: 2.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/24/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wesnoth-1.8-music, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wesnoth-music, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wesnoth-1.8-l, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wesnoth, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wesnoth-1.8-sotbe, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wesnoth-1.8-low, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wesnoth-1.8-utbs, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wesnoth-1.8, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wesnoth-1.8-core, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wesnoth-1.8-tools, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wesnoth-1.8-httt, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wesnoth-all, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wesnoth-1.8-server, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wesnoth-1.8-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wesnoth-1.8-ei, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wesnoth-1.8-aoi, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wesnoth-1.8-data, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wesnoth-1.8-sof, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wesnoth-editor, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wesnoth-1.8-did, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wesnoth-1.8-nr, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wesnoth-1.8-dm, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wesnoth-1.8-trow, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wesnoth-core, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wesnoth-1.8-tsg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wesnoth-1.8-thot, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wesnoth-1.8-ttb

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/22/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-5069, CVE-2015-5070

BID: 75424, 75425