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Debian DLA-870-1 : libplist security update
medium Nessus Plugin ID 97965
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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
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 97965
File Name: debian_DLA-870.nasl
Version: 3.9
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Debian Local Security Checks
Published: 3/27/2017
Updated: 1/11/2021
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, 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%2b%2b-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libplist%2b%2b1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libplist-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libplist-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libplist-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libplist-utils, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libplist1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-plist, 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: 3/24/2017