Debian DSA-4964-1 : grilo - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 152892

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

The remote Debian 11 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dsa-4964 advisory.

- In GNOME grilo though 0.3.13, grl-net-wc.c does not enable TLS certificate verification on the SoupSessionAsync objects it creates, leaving users vulnerable to network MITM attacks. NOTE: this is similar to CVE-2016-20011. (CVE-2021-39365)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade the grilo packages.

For the stable distribution (bullseye), this problem has been fixed in version 0.3.13-1+deb11u1.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=992971

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

https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4964

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-39365

https://packages.debian.org/source/bullseye/grilo

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 152892

File Name: debian_DSA-4964.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/28/2021

Updated: 1/20/2022

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-39365

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gir1.2-grilo-0.3, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgrilo-0.3-0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgrilo-0.3-bin, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgrilo-0.3-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgrilo-0.3-doc, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:11.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/27/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/22/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-39365