Debian DLA-1767-1 : monit security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 124340

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Zack Flack found several issues in monit, a utility for monitoring and managing daemons or similar programs.

CVE-2019-11454 An XSS vulnerabilitty has been reported that could be prevented by HTML escaping the log file content when viewed via Monit GUI.

CVE-2019-11455 A buffer overrun vulnerability has been reported in URL decoding.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version 1:5.9-1+deb8u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your monit 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 monit package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 124340

File Name: debian_DLA-1767.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 4/29/2019

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:monit, 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: 4/26/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/22/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-11454, CVE-2019-11455

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