Debian DLA-557-1 : dietlibc security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 92544

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that there was an insecure default PATH in dietlibc, a libc optimized for small size.

Thorsten Glaser discovered that the default PATH in dietlibc (if the environment variable is unset) contained the current working directory.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', this issue has been fixed in :

- dietlibc version 0.33~cvs20120325-4+deb7u1

- minit version 0.10-5+deb7u1

We recommend that you upgrade your dietlibc and minit 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 dietlibc-dev, and dietlibc-doc packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2016/07/msg00020.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/dietlibc

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 92544

File Name: debian_DLA-557.nasl

Version: 2.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/26/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:dietlibc-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:dietlibc-doc, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 7/25/2016