Debian DLA-2675-1 : caribou regression update

high Nessus Plugin ID 150272

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was found that the fix for CVE-2020-25712 in the Xorg X server, addressed in DLA-2486-1, caused a regression in caribou, making it crash whenever special (shifted) characters were entered.

For Debian 9 stretch, this problem has been fixed in version 0.4.21-1+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your caribou packages.

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

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: High

ID: 150272

File Name: debian_DLA-2675.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 6/4/2021

Updated: 6/4/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libcaribou-gtk-module, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libcaribou-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:caribou-antler, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:caribou, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libcaribou-gtk3-module, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gir1.2-caribou-1.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libcaribou0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libcaribou-common

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/3/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/3/2021

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