Debian DLA-1032-1 : unattended-upgrades regression update

high Nessus Plugin ID 101824

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Since the release of the last Debian stable release ('stretch'), Debian LTS ('wheezy') has been renamed 'oldoldstable', which broke the unattended-upgrades package as described in bug #867169. Updates would simply not be performed anymore.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 0.79.5+wheezy3. Note that later unattended-upgrades version released in later Debian versions do not exhibit the same behavior, as they use the release codename (e.g. 'jessie') instead of the suite name (e.g.
'oldstable') in the configuration file. So later releases will transition correctly for future LTS releases.

We recommend that you upgrade your unattended-upgrades 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 unattended-upgrades package.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/07/msg00024.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/unattended-upgrades

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 101824

File Name: debian_DLA-1032.nasl

Version: 3.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/20/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 7/19/2017