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Debian DLA-1213-1 : openafs security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 105394

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

CVE-2017-17432 It was discovered that malformed jumbogram packets could result in denial of service against OpenAFS, an implementation of the Andrew distributed file system.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 1.6.1-3+deb7u8.

We recommend that you upgrade your openafs 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.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00016.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 105394

File Name: debian_DLA-1213.nasl

Version: 3.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/21/2017

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: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

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:libafsauthent1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libafsrpc1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libkopenafs1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libopenafs-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpam-openafs-kaserver, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:openafs-client, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:openafs-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:openafs-dbserver, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:openafs-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:openafs-fileserver, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:openafs-fuse, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:openafs-kpasswd, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:openafs-krb5, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:openafs-modules-dkms, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:openafs-modules-source, 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: 12/20/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-17432