Debian DLA-562-1 : gosa security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 92569

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

GOsa² is a combination of system-administrator and end-user web interface, designed to handle LDAP based setups.

A code injection vulnerability in the Samba plugin code of GOsa has been discovered. During Samba password changes it has been possible to inject malicious Perl code.

If you upgrade to this fixed package revision, please note that Samba password changes will stop working until the sambaHashHook parameter in gosa.conf has been updated to accept base64 encoded password strings.

Please read the gosa.conf (5) man page after you have upgraded to this package revision and adapt gosa.conf as described there.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 2.7.4-4.3~deb7u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your gosa 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 packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2016/07/msg00024.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/gosa

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 92569

File Name: debian_DLA-562.nasl

Version: 2.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/27/2016

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:gosa, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gosa-desktop, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gosa-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gosa-help-de, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gosa-help-en, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gosa-help-fr, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gosa-help-nl, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gosa-plugin-connectivity, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gosa-plugin-dhcp, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gosa-plugin-dhcp-schema, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gosa-plugin-dns, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gosa-plugin-dns-schema, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gosa-plugin-fai, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gosa-plugin-fai-schema, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gosa-plugin-gofax, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gosa-plugin-gofon, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gosa-plugin-goto, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gosa-plugin-kolab, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gosa-plugin-kolab-schema, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gosa-plugin-ldapmanager, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gosa-plugin-mail, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gosa-plugin-mit-krb5, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gosa-plugin-mit-krb5-schema, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gosa-plugin-nagios, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gosa-plugin-nagios-schema, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gosa-plugin-netatalk, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gosa-plugin-opengroupware, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gosa-plugin-openxchange, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gosa-plugin-openxchange-schema, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gosa-plugin-opsi, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gosa-plugin-phpgw, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gosa-plugin-phpgw-schema, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gosa-plugin-phpscheduleit, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gosa-plugin-phpscheduleit-schema, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gosa-plugin-pptp, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gosa-plugin-pptp-schema, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gosa-plugin-pureftpd, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gosa-plugin-pureftpd-schema, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gosa-plugin-rolemanagement, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gosa-plugin-rsyslog, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gosa-plugin-samba, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gosa-plugin-scalix, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gosa-plugin-squid, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gosa-plugin-ssh, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gosa-plugin-ssh-schema, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gosa-plugin-sudo, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gosa-plugin-sudo-schema, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gosa-plugin-systems, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gosa-plugin-uw-imap, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gosa-plugin-webdav, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gosa-schema, 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: 7/26/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8771