Debian DLA-612-1 : libtomcrypt security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 93353

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that the implementation of RSA signature verification in libtomcrypt is vulnerable to the Bleichenbacher signature attack.

If an RSA key with exponent 3 is used it may be possible to forge a PKCS#1 v1.5 signature signed by that key.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 1.17-3.2+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libtomcrypt packages.

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Solution

Upgrade the affected libtomcrypt-dev, and libtomcrypt0 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 93353

File Name: debian_DLA-612.nasl

Version: 2.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 9/8/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous 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:N/I:P/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:N/I:H/A:N

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libtomcrypt-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libtomcrypt0, 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: 9/6/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-6129

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