Debian DLA-870-1 : libplist security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 97965

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

More vulnerabilities were discovered in libplist, a library for reading and writing the Apple binary and XML property lists format. A maliciously crafted plist file could cause a denial of service (application crash) by triggering a heap-based buffer overflow or memory allocation error in the parse_string_node function.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 1.8-1+deb7u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your libplist 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/2017/03/msg00028.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 97965

File Name: debian_DLA-870.nasl

Version: 3.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/27/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.9

Temporal Score: 1.4

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/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:libplist-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libplist1, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libplist%2b%2b1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libplist-utils, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libplist-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-plist, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libplist%2b%2b-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libplist-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: 3/24/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-6435, CVE-2017-6436, CVE-2017-6439