Debian DLA-582-1 : libidn security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 92683

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libidn. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

CVE-2015-8948

When idn is reading one zero byte as input an out-of-bounds-read occurred.

CVE-2016-6261

An out-of-bounds stack read is exploitable in idna_to_ascii_4i.

CVE-2016-6263

stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize reject invalid UTF-8, causes a crash.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 1.25-2+deb7u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your libidn 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/2016/08/msg00001.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 92683

File Name: debian_DLA-582.nasl

Version: 2.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/3/2016

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: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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:idn, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libidn11, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libidn11-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libidn11-java, 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: 8/2/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8948, CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263