Debian DLA-643-1 : chicken security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 93834

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in the CHICKEN Scheme compiler :

CVE-2016-6830

Buffer overrun in CHICKEN Scheme's 'process-execute' and 'process-spawn' procedures from the posix unit

CVE-2016-6831

Memory leak in CHICKEN Scheme's process-execute and process-spawn procedures

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 4.7.0-1+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your chicken 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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 93834

File Name: debian_DLA-643.nasl

Version: 2.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 10/4/2016

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: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

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:chicken-bin, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libchicken6, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libchicken-dev

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/30/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-6830, CVE-2016-6831

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