Debian DSA-3562-1 : tardiff - security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 90838

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in tardiff, a tarball comparison tool. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

- CVE-2015-0857 Rainer Mueller and Florian Weimer discovered that tardiff is prone to shell command injections via shell meta-characters in filenames in tar files or via shell meta-characters in the tar filename itself.

- CVE-2015-0858 Florian Weimer discovered that tardiff uses predictable temporary directories for unpacking tarballs. A malicious user can use this flaw to overwrite files with permissions of the user running the tardiff command line tool.

Solution

Upgrade the tardiff packages.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 0.1-2+deb8u2.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 90838

File Name: debian_DSA-3562.nasl

Version: 2.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 5/3/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

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:tardiff, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/1/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-0857, CVE-2015-0858

DSA: 3562

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