Debian DLA-635-1 : dwarfutils security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 93689

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that there were out-of-bounds read issues in dwarfutils, a library to consume and produce DWARF debug information.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', this issue has been fixed in dwarfutils version 20120410-2+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your dwarfutils 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 dwarfdump, and libdwarf-dev packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 93689

File Name: debian_DLA-635.nasl

Version: 2.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 9/26/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:dwarfdump, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libdwarf-dev, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/24/2016

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