Debian DLA-1665-1 : netmask security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 121627

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

A buffer overflow was found in netmask which would crash when called with arbitrarily long inputs.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 2.3.12+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your netmask 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 netmask package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 121627

File Name: debian_DLA-1665.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 2/7/2019

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/6/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/6/2019

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