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Debian DLA-1135-1 : db security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 103947

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was found that the Berkeley DB reads DB_CONFIG from the current working directory, leading to information leak by tricking privileged processes into reading arbitrary files.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 5.1.29-5+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your db 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 packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/10/msg00013.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 103947

File Name: debian_DLA-1135.nasl

Version: 3.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/19/2017

Updated: 11/18/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-10140

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libdb5.1-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libdb5.1-stl, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libdb5.1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libdb5.1%2b%2b-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:db5.1-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libdb5.1-sql, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libdb5.1%2b%2b, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libdb5.1-sql-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libdb5.1-java-gcj, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:db5.1-sql-util, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libdb5.1-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:db5.1-util, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libdb5.1-java, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libdb5.1-tcl, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libdb5.1-java-jni, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libdb5.1-stl-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libdb5.1-java-dev

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/18/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-10140