Debian DSA-3599-1 : p7zip - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 91549

Synopsis

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

Description

Marcin 'Icewall' Noga of Cisco Talos discovered an out-of-bound read vulnerability in the CInArchive::ReadFileItem method in p7zip, a 7zr file archiver with high compression ratio. A remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw to cause a denial-of-service or, potentially the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running p7zip, if a specially crafted UDF file is processed.

Solution

Upgrade the p7zip packages.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 9.20.1~dfsg.1-4.1+deb8u2.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=824160

https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/p7zip

https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3599

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 91549

File Name: debian_DSA-3599.nasl

Version: 2.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/10/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:p7zip, 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: 6/9/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-2335

DSA: 3599