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Debian DLA-1515-1 : hylafax security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 117642

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Luis Merino, Markus Vervier and Eric Sesterhenn discovered that missing input sanitising in the Hylafax fax software could potentially result in the execution of arbitrary code via a malformed fax message.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 3:6.0.6-6+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your hylafax 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/2018/09/msg00026.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 117642

File Name: debian_DLA-1515.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/24/2018

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: 7.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:hylafax-client, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:hylafax-client-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:hylafax-server, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:hylafax-server-dbg, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/22/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-17141