Debian DLA-417-1 : xdelta3 security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 88765

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that there was a buffer overflow in in xdelta3, a diff utility which works with binary files. This vulnerability allowed arbitrary code execution from input files.

For Debian 6 Squeeze, this issue has been fixed in xdelta3 version 0y.dfsg-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 python-xdelta3, and xdelta3 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 88765

File Name: debian_DLA-417.nasl

Version: 2.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 2/17/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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:xdelta3, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-xdelta3, 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: 2/16/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-9765

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