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Debian DLA-487-1 : debian-security-support - Long term security support update

high Nessus Plugin ID 91323

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

The Debian Long Term Support (LTS) Team is unable to continue supporting different packages in the extended life cycle of Wheezy LTS. The debian-security-support package provides the check-support-status tool that helps to warn the administrator about installed packages whose security support is limited or has to prematurely end.

debian-security-support version 2016.05.24~deb7u1 updates the list of packages with restricted support in Wheezy LTS, adding the following :

Source Package Last supported version EOL date Additional information

 - libv8 3.8.9.20-2 2016-02-06 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/2015/08/msg00035.htm l

 - mediawiki 1:1.19.20+dfsg-0+deb7u3 2016-04-26 https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/amd64/release-not es/ch-information.html#mediawiki-security

 - sogo 1.3.16-1 2016-05-19 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/2016/05/msg00197.htm l

 - vlc 2.0.3-5+deb7u2 2016-02-06 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/2015/11/msg00049.htm l

If you rely on those packages on a system running Debian 7 'Wheezy', we recommend you to upgrade to Debian 8 'Jessie', the current stable release. Note however that the mediawiki support has also ended in Jessie.

We recommend you to install the debian-security-support package to verify the support status of the packages installed on the system.

More information about Debian LTS can be found at:
https://wiki.debian.org/LTS

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 debian-security-support package.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2016/05/msg00042.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/2015/08/msg00035.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/2015/11/msg00049.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/2016/05/msg00197.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/debian-security-support

https://wiki.debian.org/LTS

http://www.nessus.org/u?bda4d120

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 91323

File Name: debian_DLA-487.nasl

Version: 2.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/26/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 5/25/2016