Debian DLA-367-1 : kdelibs security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 87316

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It has been reported that kdelibs uses the insecure mktemp() function to create the temporary directory it uses to host user-specific sockets. It is thus possible for another user to hijack this temporary directory and gain socket accesses it should not have.

In Debian 6 'Squeeze', this issue has been addressed in kdelibs 3.5.10.dfsg.1-5+deb6u1 with the use of the safer mkdtemp() function. We recommend that you upgrade your kdelibs packages.

Other Debian releases have newer versions of the libraries (kdelibs4) that are not affected by this problem.

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: High

ID: 87316

File Name: debian_DLA-367.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 12/11/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.3

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:kdelibs4-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:kdelibs4-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:kdelibs-dbg, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:kdelibs, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:kdelibs4c2a, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:kdelibs-data

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/10/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-7543

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