Debian DLA-998-1 : c-ares security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 101006

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

CVE-2017-1000381 The c-ares function ares_parse_naptr_reply(), which is used for parsing NAPTR responses, could be triggered to read memory outside of the given input buffer if the passed in DNS response packet was crafted in a particular way.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 1.9.1-3+deb7u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your c-ares 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 libc-ares-dev, and libc-ares2 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 101006

File Name: debian_DLA-998.nasl

Version: 3.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 6/23/2017

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: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:libc-ares-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libc-ares2, 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: 6/22/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-1000381

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