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Debian DLA-661-1 : libarchive security update
high Nessus Plugin ID 94102
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Synopsis
The remote Debian host is missing a security update.Description
Agostino Sarubbo of Gentoo discovered several security vulnerabilities in libarchive, a multi-format archive and compression library. An attacker could take advantage of these flaws to cause a buffer overflow or an out of bounds read using a carefully crafted input file.CVE-2016-8687
Agostino Sarubbo of Gentoo discovered a possible stack-based buffer overflow when printing a filename in bsdtar_expand_char() of util.c.
CVE-2016-8688
Agostino Sarubbo of Gentoo discovered a possible out of bounds read when parsing multiple long lines in bid_entry() and detect_form() of archive_read_support_format_mtree.c.
CVE-2016-8689
Agostino Sarubbo of Gentoo discovered a possible heap-based buffer overflow when reading corrupted 7z files in read_Header() of archive_read_support_format_7zip.c.
For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 3.0.4-3+wheezy5.
We recommend that you upgrade your libarchive 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/2016/10/msg00016.html
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 94102
File Name: debian_DLA-661.nasl
Version: 2.8
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Debian Local Security Checks
Published: 10/18/2016
Updated: 1/11/2021
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, 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:N/A:P
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:N/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:bsdtar, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libarchive-dev, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libarchive12, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:bsdcpio
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 10/17/2016