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Debian DLA-734-1 : mapserver security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 95601

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that there was an information leakage vulnerability in mapserver, a CGI-based framework for Internet map services.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', this issue has been fixed in mapserver version 6.0.1-3.2+deb7u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your mapserver 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/2016/12/msg00007.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/mapserver

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 95601

File Name: debian_DLA-734.nasl

Version: 3.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/7/2016

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:libmapscript-perl, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:cgi-mapserver, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libmapscript-ruby1.8, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mapserver-bin, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-mapscript, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libmapscript-ruby, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php5-mapscript, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mapserver-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libmapscript-ruby1.9.1

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/7/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-9839