Debian DLA-474-1 : dosfstools security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 91136

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that there was an invalid memory and heap overflow vulnerability in dosfstools, a collection of utilities for making and checking MS-DOS FAT filesystems.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', this issue has been fixed in dosfstools version 3.0.13-1+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your dosfstools packages.

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 dosfstools, and dosfstools-dbg packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 91136

File Name: debian_DLA-474.nasl

Version: 2.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 5/16/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:dosfstools, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:dosfstools-dbg, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 5/15/2016

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