Debian DLA-1084-1 : libidn security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 102923

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that there was an integer overflow vulnerability in libidn's Punycode handling (an encoding used to convert Unicode characters to ASCII) which would have allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', this issue has been fixed in libidn version 1.25-2+deb7u3.

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 102923

File Name: debian_DLA-1084.nasl

Version: 3.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 9/5/2017

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: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

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: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: 9/2/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-14062

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