Debian DLA-598-1 : suckless-tools security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 93053

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that the slock screen locking tool would segfault when the user's account had been disabled.

slock called crypt(3) and used the return value for strcmp(3) without checking to see if the return value of crypt(3) was a NULL pointer. If the hash returned by (getspnam()->sp_pwdp) was invalid, crypt(3) would return NULL and set errno to EINVAL. This would cause slock to segfault which leaves the machine unprotected.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', this issue has been fixed in suckless-tools version 38-2+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your suckless-tools 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 suckless-tools package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 93053

File Name: debian_DLA-598.nasl

Version: 2.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 8/22/2016

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: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

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:N/I:N/A:H

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:suckless-tools, 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: 8/20/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-6866

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