Debian DSA-3405-1 : smokeping - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 87078

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Synopsis

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

Description

Tero Marttila discovered that the Debian packaging for smokeping installed it in such a way that the CGI implementation of Apache httpd (mod_cgi) passed additional arguments to the smokeping_cgi program, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution in response to crafted HTTP requests.

Solution

Upgrade the smokeping packages.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 2.6.8-2+deb7u1.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 2.6.9-1+deb8u1.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 87078

File Name: debian_DSA-3405.nasl

Version: 2.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 11/30/2015

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:smokeping, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/25/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-0859

DSA: 3405

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