Debian DLA-2363-1 : asyncpg security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 140225

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

asyncpg before 0.21.0 allows a malicious PostgreSQL server to trigger a crash or execute arbitrary code (on a database client) via a crafted server response, because of access to an uninitialized pointer in the array data decoder.

For Debian 9 stretch, this problem has been fixed in version 0.8.4-1+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your asyncpg packages.

For the detailed security status of asyncpg please refer to its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/asyncpg

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 python3-asyncpg package.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00002.html

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

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 140225

File Name: debian_DLA-2363.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/4/2020

Updated: 2/22/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

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-2020-17446

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:python3-asyncpg, 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: 9/2/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/12/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-17446