Debian DLA-634-1 : dropbear security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 93688

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that there were two issues in dropbear, a lightweight SSH2 server and client :

- CVE-2016-7406: Potential issues in exit message formatting.

- CVE-2016-7407: Overflows when parsing OpenSSH's ASN.1 key format.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', this issue has been fixed in dropbear version 2012.55-1.3+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your dropbear 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 dropbear package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 93688

File Name: debian_DLA-634.nasl

Version: 2.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 9/26/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:dropbear, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/23/2016

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