Debian DLA-1833-2 : bzip2 regression update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 126221

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

The original fix for CVE-2019-12900 in bzip2, a high-quality block-sorting file compressor, introduces regressions when extracting certain lbzip2 files which were created with a buggy libzip2.

Please see https://bugs.debian.org/931278 for more information.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.6-4+deb7u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your bzip2 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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 126221

File Name: debian_DLA-1833.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 6/25/2019

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, 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 Score Source: CVE-2019-12900

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:bzip2-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libbz2-1.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libbz2-dev, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:bzip2

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/18/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/19/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-12900

IAVA: 2020-A-0482

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