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Debian DSA-4393-1 : systemd - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 122270

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Synopsis

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

Description

Chris Coulson discovered a flaw in systemd leading to denial of service. An unprivileged user could take advantage of this issue to crash PID1 by sending a specially crafted D-Bus message on the system bus.

Solution

Upgrade the systemd packages.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 232-25+deb9u9.

See Also

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/systemd

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

https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4393

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 122270

File Name: debian_DSA-4393.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/19/2019

Updated: 2/13/2020

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/18/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/21/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-6454

DSA: 4393