Debian DLA-388-1 : dwarfutils security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 87956

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that there was a NULL deference in dwarfutils, a tool to dump DWARF debug information from ELF objects.

For Debian 6 Squeeze, this issue has been fixed in dwarfutils version 20100214-1+deb6u1.

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 dwarfdump, and libdwarf-dev packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 87956

File Name: debian_DLA-388.nasl

Version: 2.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 1/18/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:dwarfdump, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libdwarf-dev, 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: 1/15/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8750

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