Executive Summary

Summary
Title apt security update
Informations
Name DSA-3031 First vendor Publication 2014-09-23
Vendor Debian Last vendor Modification 2014-09-23
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 1

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 6.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

The Google Security Team discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in the HTTP transport code in apt-get. An attacker able to man-in-the-middle a HTTP request to an apt repository can trigger the buffer overflow, leading to a crash of the 'http' apt method binary, or potentially to arbitrary code execution.

Two regression fixes were included in this update:

* Fix regression from the previous update in DSA-3025-1 when the custom apt configuration option for Dir::state::lists is set to a relative path (#762160).

* Fix regression in the reverificaiton handling of cdrom: sources that may lead to incorrect hashsum warnings. Affected users need to run "apt-cdrom add" again after the update was applied.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.7.9+deb7u5.

We recommend that you upgrade your apt packages.

Original Source

Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3031

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:26069
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:26069
Title: DSA-3031-1 apt - security update
Description: The Google Security Team discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in the HTTP transport code in apt-get. An attacker able to man-in-the-middle a HTTP request to an apt repository can trigger the buffer overflow, leading to a crash of the <q>http</q> apt method binary, or potentially to arbitrary code execution.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-3031-1
CVE-2014-6273
Version: 3
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 7.0
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 7.0
Product(s): apt
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:26752
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:26752
Title: USN-2353-1 -- apt vulnerability
Description: APT could be made to crash or run programs if it received specially crafted network traffic.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-2353-1
CVE-2014-6273
Version: 3
Platform(s): Ubuntu 14.04
Ubuntu 12.04
Ubuntu 10.04
Product(s): apt
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 77

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2014-09-25 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3031.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-09-24 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-2353-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2014-10-02 09:27:48
  • Multiple Updates
2014-10-01 00:32:02
  • Multiple Updates
2014-09-26 13:27:31
  • Multiple Updates
2014-09-23 21:24:11
  • First insertion