Debian DSA-1737-1 : wesnoth - several vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 35907

Synopsis

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

Description

Several security issues have been discovered in wesnoth, a fantasy turn-based strategy game. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

- CVE-2009-0366 Daniel Franke discovered that the wesnoth server is prone to a denial of service attack when receiving special crafted compressed data.

- CVE-2009-0367 Daniel Franke discovered that the sandbox implementation for the python AIs can be used to execute arbitrary python code on wesnoth clients. In order to prevent this issue, the python support has been disabled. A compatibility patch was included, so that the affected campagne is still working properly.

Solution

Upgrade the wesnoth packages.

For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 1.4.4-2+lenny1.

For the oldstable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 1.2-5.

See Also

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-0366

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-0367

https://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1737

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 35907

File Name: debian_DSA-1737.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/12/2009

Updated: 1/4/2021

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: 9.3

Temporal Score: 7.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wesnoth, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/11/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-0366, CVE-2009-0367

CWE: 264, 399

DSA: 1737