Debian DLA-2080-1 : iperf3 security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 133277

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

An issue has been found in iperf3, an Internet Protocol bandwidth measuring tool. Bad handling of UTF8/16 strings in an embedded library could cause a denial of service (crash) or execution of arbitrary code by putting special characters in a JSON string, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 3.0.7-1+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your iperf3 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 iperf3, libiperf-dev, and libiperf0 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 133277

File Name: debian_DLA-2080.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 1/28/2020

Updated: 3/28/2024

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: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-4303

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:iperf3, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libiperf-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libiperf0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/27/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/26/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-4303

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