Debian DLA-790-1 : mapserver security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 96634

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that mapserver, a CGI-based framework for Internet map services, was vulnerable to a stack-based overflow. This issue allowed a remote user to crash the service, or potentially execute arbitrary code.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 6.0.1-3.2+deb7u4.

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/2017/01/msg00026.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 96634

File Name: debian_DLA-790.nasl

Version: 3.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/20/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, 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:cgi-mapserver, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libmapscript-perl, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libmapscript-ruby, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libmapscript-ruby1.8, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libmapscript-ruby1.9.1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mapserver-bin, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mapserver-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php5-mapscript, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-mapscript, 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: 1/19/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-5522