Debian DLA-884-1 : collectd security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 99189

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that there was an infinite loop vulnerability in collectd, a statistics collection and monitoring daemon.

When a correct 'Signature part' is received by an instance configured without the AuthFile option, an endless loop occurs in the parse_packet routine due to a missing pointer increment to the next unprocessed part.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', this issue has been fixed in collectd version 5.1.0-3+deb7u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your collectd 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.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 99189

File Name: debian_DLA-884.nasl

Version: 3.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 4/5/2017

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:collectd, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:collectd-core, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:collectd-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:collectd-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:collectd-utils, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libcollectdclient-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libcollectdclient0, 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: 4/4/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-7401

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