Debian DLA-2820-1 : atftp - LTS security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 155440

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

The remote Debian 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dla-2820 advisory.

- An exploitable denial of service vulnerability exists in the atftpd daemon functionality of atftp 0.7.git20120829-3.1+b1. A specially crafted sequence of RRQ-Multicast requests trigger an assert() call resulting in denial-of-service. An attacker can send a sequence of malicious packets to trigger this vulnerability. (CVE-2020-6097)

- tftpd_file.c in atftp through 0.7.4 has a buffer overflow because buffer-size handling does not properly consider the combination of data, OACK, and other options. (CVE-2021-41054)

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 atftp packages.

For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 0.7.git20120829-3.1~deb9u2.

See Also

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

https://www.debian.org/lts/security/2021/dla-2820

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-6097

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-41054

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

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 155440

File Name: debian_DLA-2820.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/17/2021

Updated: 11/23/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-41054

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:atftp, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:atftpd, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0

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: 11/17/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/10/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-6097, CVE-2021-41054