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Debian DLA-582-1 : libidn security update
high Nessus Plugin ID 92683
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Synopsis
The remote Debian host is missing a security update.Description
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libidn. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :CVE-2015-8948
When idn is reading one zero byte as input an out-of-bounds-read occurred.
CVE-2016-6261
An out-of-bounds stack read is exploitable in idna_to_ascii_4i.
CVE-2016-6263
stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize reject invalid UTF-8, causes a crash.
For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 1.25-2+deb7u2.
We recommend that you upgrade your libidn packages.
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.See Also
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2016/08/msg00001.html
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 92683
File Name: debian_DLA-582.nasl
Version: 2.8
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Debian Local Security Checks
Published: 8/3/2016
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: 5
Temporal Score: 3.7
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.5
Temporal Score: 6.5
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:idn, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libidn11, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libidn11-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libidn11-java, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 8/2/2016