Debian DLA-721-1 : libgc security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 95357

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

libgc is vulnerable to integer overflows in multiple places. In some cases, when asked to allocate a huge quantity of memory, instead of failing the request, it will return a pointer to a small amount of memory possibly tricking the application into a buffer overwrite.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 1:7.1-9.1+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libgc 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 libgc-dev, and libgc1c2 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 95357

File Name: debian_DLA-721.nasl

Version: 3.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 11/28/2016

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:libgc-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgc1c2, 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: 11/25/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-9427

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