Debian DLA-1725-1 : rsync security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 123019

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Trail of Bits used the automated vulnerability discovery tools developed for the DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge to audit zlib. As rsync, a fast, versatile, remote (and local) file-copying tool, uses an embedded copy of zlib, those issues are also present in rsync.

CVE-2016-9840 In order to avoid undefined behavior, remove offset pointer optimization, as this is not compliant with the C standard.

CVE-2016-9841 Only use post-increment to be compliant with the C standard.

CVE-2016-9842 In order to avoid undefined behavior, do not shift negative values, as this is not compliant with the C standard.

CVE-2016-9843 In order to avoid undefined behavior, do not pre-decrement a pointer in big-endian CRC calculation, as this is not compliant with the C standard.

CVE-2018-5764 Prevent remote attackers from being able to bypass the argument-sanitization protection mechanism by ignoring --protect-args when already sent by client.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version 3.1.1-3+deb8u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your rsync 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 rsync package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 123019

File Name: debian_DLA-1725.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 3/25/2019

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: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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:rsync, 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: 3/24/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/23/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-9840, CVE-2016-9841, CVE-2016-9842, CVE-2016-9843, CVE-2018-5764

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