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Debian DSA-5063-1 : uriparser - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 157257

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Debian 10 / 11 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-5063 advisory.

 - An issue was discovered in uriparser before 0.9.6. It performs invalid free operations in uriFreeUriMembers and uriMakeOwner. (CVE-2021-46141)

 - An issue was discovered in uriparser before 0.9.6. It performs invalid free operations in uriNormalizeSyntax. (CVE-2021-46142)

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 uriparser packages.

For the stable distribution (bullseye), these problems have been fixed in version 0.9.4+dfsg-1+deb11u1.

See Also

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

https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5063

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-46141

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-46142

https://packages.debian.org/source/buster/uriparser

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 157257

File Name: debian_DSA-5063.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/31/2022

Updated: 11/17/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-46142

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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:liburiparser-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:liburiparser-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:liburiparser1, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:10.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:11.0

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: 1/26/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/6/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-46141, CVE-2021-46142