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Debian DLA-338-1 : xscreensaver security update

low Nessus Plugin ID 86677

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

xscreensaver, a screensaver daemon and frontend for X11 was vulnerable to crashing when hot-swapping monitors.

For Debian 6 Squeeze, this issue has been fixed in xscreensaver version 5.11-1+deb6u11.

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.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2015/10/msg00017.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze-lts/xscreensaver

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 86677

File Name: debian_DLA-338.nasl

Version: 2.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/2/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:xscreensaver, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:xscreensaver-gl-extra, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:xscreensaver-data, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:xscreensaver-data-extra, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:xscreensaver-screensaver-bsod, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:xscreensaver-screensaver-webcollage, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:xscreensaver-gl

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/31/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8025