Debian DSA-4093-1 : openocd - security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 106213

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Synopsis

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

Description

Josef Gajdusek discovered that OpenOCD, a JTAG debugger for ARM and MIPS, was vulnerable to Cross Protocol Scripting attacks. An attacker could craft a HTML page that, when visited by a victim running OpenOCD, could execute arbitrary commands on the victims host.

This fix also sets the OpenOCD default binding to localhost, instead of every network interfaces. This can be changed with the added 'bindto'command argument.

Solution

Upgrade the openocd packages.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 0.8.0-4+deb7u1.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.0-1+deb8u1.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 106213

File Name: debian_DSA-4093.nasl

Version: 3.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 1/22/2018

Updated: 11/3/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 7.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-5704

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.6

Temporal Score: 8.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/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:openocd, 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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/21/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-5704

DSA: 4093

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