Debian DLA-810-1 : libarchive security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 96909

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that there was a heap buffer overflow in libarchive, a multi-format archive and compression library.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', this issue has been fixed in libarchive version 3.0.4-3+wheezy5+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libarchive packages.

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/2017/01/msg00047.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/libarchive

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 96909

File Name: debian_DLA-810.nasl

Version: 3.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/1/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Temporal Vector: E:U/RL:OF/RC:C

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:bsdcpio, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:bsdtar, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libarchive-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libarchive12, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/31/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-5601