Debian DLA-876-1 : eject security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 99042

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Ilja Van Sprundel discovered that eject (a tool to eject CD/DVD drives) did not properly handle errors returned from setuid/setgid.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', this issue has been fixed in eject version 2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-13+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your eject 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 eject package.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/03/msg00034.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 99042

File Name: debian_DLA-876.nasl

Version: 3.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/30/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:eject

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/28/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-6964