Debian DLA-195-1 : libtasn1-3 security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 82718

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Hanno Boeck discovered a stack-based buffer overflow in the asn1_der_decoding function in Libtasn1, a library to manage ASN.1 structures. A remote attacker could take advantage of this flaw to cause an application using the Libtasn1 library to crash, or potentially to execute arbitrary code.

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/2015/04/msg00009.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze-lts/libtasn1-3

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 82718

File Name: debian_DLA-195.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/13/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libtasn1-3, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libtasn1-3-bin, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libtasn1-3-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libtasn1-3-dev, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/12/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-2806

BID: 73436