Debian DLA-475-1 : python-tornado security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 91137

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that python-tornado, a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library, was susceptible for the BREACH attack. The XSRF token is now encoded with a random mask on each request. This makes it safe to include in compressed pages without being vulnerable.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 2.3-2+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your python-tornado 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 python-tornado, and python3-tornado packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 91137

File Name: debian_DLA-475.nasl

Version: 2.6

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-tornado, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python3-tornado, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/15/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/24/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-9720

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