Detections
Analytics

Debian DLA-1602-1 : nsis security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 119312

Language:

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Among others, Andre Heinicke from gpg4win.org found several issues of nsis, a tool for creating quick and user friendly installers for

Microsoft Windows operating systems.

The issues are fixed by ... ... using SetDefaultDllDirectories() to restrict implicitly loaded and dynamically loaded modules to trusted directories ... creating temporary directories in a way that only elevated users can write into it ... not implicitly linking against Version.dll but using wrapper functions

For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version 2.46-10+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your nsis 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/2018/11/msg00041.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 119312

File Name: debian_DLA-1602.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/1/2018

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 6.9

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:nsis, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:nsis-common, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:nsis-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:nsis-pluginapi, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/30/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/1/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-9267, CVE-2015-9268