Debian DLA-1469-1 : libxcursor security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 111982

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that there was a denial of service or (potentially code execution) vulnerability in libxcursor, a library designed to help locate and load cursors for the X Window System.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this issue has been fixed in libxcursor version 1:1.1.14-1+deb8u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your libxcursor 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/2018/08/msg00016.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/libxcursor

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 111982

File Name: debian_DLA-1469.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/20/2018

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

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libxcursor-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libxcursor1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libxcursor1-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libxcursor1-udeb, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/18/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-9262