Debian DSA-3483-1 : cpio - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 88866

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Synopsis

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

Description

Gustavo Grieco discovered an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in cpio, a tool for creating and extracting cpio archive files, leading to a denial of service (application crash).

Solution

Upgrade the cpio packages.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 2.11+dfsg-0.1+deb7u2.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 2.11+dfsg-4.1+deb8u1.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 88866

File Name: debian_DSA-3483.nasl

Version: 2.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 2/22/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:cpio, 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

Patch Publication Date: 2/19/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-2037

DSA: 3483

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