Debian DLA-274-1 : groovy security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 84832

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

cpnrodzc7, working with HP's Zero Day Initiative, discovered that Java applications using standard Java serialization mechanisms to decode untrusted data, and that have Groovy on their classpath, can be passed a serialized object that will cause the application to execute arbitrary code.

For the oldoldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.7.0-4+deb6u1.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy) and stable distribution (jessie), this problem will be fixed soon.

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 groovy, and groovy-doc packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2015/07/msg00013.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze-lts/groovy

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 84832

File Name: debian_DLA-274.nasl

Version: 2.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/20/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:groovy, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:groovy-doc, 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: 7/19/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-3253

BID: 75919