Debian DLA-745-1 : most security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 96006

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

The most pager can automatically open files compressed with gzip, bzip2 and (in Debian) LZMA. Alberto Garcia discovered that Debian's version of most was susceptible for a shell injection attack that could be exploited to run arbitrary commands on the user's computer.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 5.0.0a-2.2.

We recommend that you upgrade your most 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 most package.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2016/12/msg00020.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 96006

File Name: debian_DLA-745.nasl

Version: 3.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/20/2016

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: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

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:most, 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: 12/16/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-1253