Debian DLA-1684-1 : systemd security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 122319

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Chris Coulson discovered a flaw in systemd leading to denial of service. An unprivileged user could take advantage of this issue to crash PID1 by sending a specially crafted D-Bus message on the system bus.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 215-17+deb8u10.

We recommend that you upgrade your systemd 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/2019/02/msg00031.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 122319

File Name: debian_DLA-1684.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/20/2019

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/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:gir1.2-gudev-1.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgudev-1.0-0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgudev-1.0-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpam-systemd, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsystemd-daemon-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsystemd-daemon0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsystemd-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsystemd-id128-0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsystemd-id128-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsystemd-journal-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsystemd-journal0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsystemd-login-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsystemd-login0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsystemd0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libudev-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libudev1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libudev1-udeb, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python3-systemd, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:systemd, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:systemd-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:systemd-sysv, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:udev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:udev-udeb, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/19/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/21/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-6454