Debian DSA-3949-1 : augeas - security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 102629

Synopsis

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

Description

Han Han of Red Hat discovered that augeas, a configuration editing tool, improperly handled some escaped strings. A remote attacker could leverage this flaw by sending maliciously crafted strings, thus causing an augeas-enabled application to crash or potentially execute arbitrary code.

Solution

Upgrade the augeas packages.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.0-0.2+deb8u2.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.8.0-1+deb9u1.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=872400

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

https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/augeas

https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3949

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 102629

File Name: debian_DSA-3949.nasl

Version: 3.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/22/2017

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:augeas, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/21/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-7555

DSA: 3949