Debian DLA-923-1 : partclone security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 99734

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that partclone, an utility to backup partitions, was prone to a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability due to insufficient validation of the partclone image header. This could allow remote attackers to cause a 'Denial of Service attack' in the context of the user running the affected application via a crafted partition image.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 0.2.48-1+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your partclone 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 partclone package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 99734

File Name: debian_DLA-923.nasl

Version: 3.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 5/1/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/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:partclone, 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: 4/28/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-6596

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