GLSA-202208-04 : libmcpp: Denial of service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 163843

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202208-04 (libmcpp: Denial of service)

- MCPP 2.7.2 has a heap-based buffer overflow in the do_msg() function in support.c. (CVE-2019-14274)

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

Solution

All libmcpp users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=dev-cpp/libmcpp-2.7.2_p5

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-04

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=718808

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 163843

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-202208-04.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Published: 8/4/2022

Updated: 10/16/2023

Supported Sensors: 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-2019-14274

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:gentoo:linux:libmcpp, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/4/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/26/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-14274