Debian DSA-3504-1 : bsh - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 89694

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Alvaro Munoz and Christian Schneider discovered that BeanShell, an embeddable Java source interpreter, could be leveraged to execute arbitrary commands: applications including BeanShell in their classpath are vulnerable to this flaw if they deserialize data from an untrusted source.

Solution

Upgrade the bsh packages.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 2.0b4-12+deb7u1.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 2.0b4-15+deb8u1.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 89694

File Name: debian_DSA-3504.nasl

Version: 2.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 3/7/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:bsh, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/4/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-2510

DSA: 3504

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