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Debian DSA-3823-1 : eject - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 99046

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Ilja Van Sprundel discovered that the dmcrypt-get-device helper used to check if a given device is an encrypted device handled by devmapper, and used in eject, does not check return values from setuid() and setgid() when dropping privileges.

Solution

Upgrade the eject packages.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-13.1+deb8u.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=858872

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

https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3823

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 99046

File Name: debian_DSA-3823.nasl

Version: 3.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/30/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless 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:8.0, 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

DSA: 3823