Debian DLA-1203-2 : xrdp regression update

high Nessus Plugin ID 105168

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

A regression was added by the patch introduced in version 0.5.0-2+deb7u2 to fix CVE-2017-16927: xrdp-sesman started to segfault in libscp.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 0.5.0-2+deb7u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your xrdp 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 xrdp package.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00009.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 105168

File Name: debian_DLA-1203.nasl

Version: 3.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/12/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:xrdp, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 12/13/2017