Debian DLA-411-2 : eglibc regression update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 88599

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

The fix for CVE-2014-9761 in Squeeze wrongly backported the upstream patch. New symbols were not declared as private and the ABI changed.
This made some programs and services crash after the upgrade, and needed to be restarted.

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Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2016/02/msg00005.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 88599

File Name: debian_DLA-411.nasl

Version: 2.23

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/8/2016

Updated: 6/18/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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:glibc-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libc6-xen, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libc6-i686, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libc6-i386, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libc-dev-bin, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libc6-udeb, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libnss-dns-udeb, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:eglibc-source, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libnss-files-udeb, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libc6-amd64, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libc6-dev-amd64, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:locales-all, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:nscd, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libc6-dev-i386, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libc6-prof, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:locales, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libc-bin, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libc6, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libc6-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libc6-pic, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libc6-dev

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/12/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-9761

IAVA: 2016-A-0053-S