Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title libevent security update
Informations
Name DSA-3789 First vendor Publication 2017-02-15
Vendor Debian Last vendor Modification 2017-02-15
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:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in libevent, an asynchronous event notification library. They would lead to Denial Of Service via application crash, or remote code execution.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 2.0.21-stable-2+deb8u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 2.0.21-stable-3.

We recommend that you upgrade your libevent packages.

Original Source

Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3789

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
67 % CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read
33 % CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 40
Application 483
Application 99
Application 349
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2018-08-17 Name : The remote PhotonOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : PhotonOS_PHSA-2017-0013.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-02-20 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201802-03.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-08-23 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2017-2235-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-07-13 Name : The remote Virtuozzo host is missing a security update.
File : Virtuozzo_VZLSA-2017-1201.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-07-13 Name : The remote Virtuozzo host is missing a security update.
File : Virtuozzo_VZLSA-2017-1106.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-07-13 Name : The remote Virtuozzo host is missing a security update.
File : Virtuozzo_VZLSA-2017-1104.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-06-27 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2017-1669-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-06-09 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : EulerOS_SA-2017-1093.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-06-09 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : EulerOS_SA-2017-1092.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-06-09 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : EulerOS_SA-2017-1091.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-06-09 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : EulerOS_SA-2017-1090.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-05-10 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.
File : centos_RHSA-2017-1201.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-05-09 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20170508_thunderbird_on_SL6_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-05-09 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2017-1201.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-05-08 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2017-1201.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-05-08 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201705-01.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-05-03 Name : The remote Windows host contains a mail client that is affected by multiple v...
File : mozilla_thunderbird_52_1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-05-03 Name : The remote macOS or Mac OS X host contains a mail client that is affected by ...
File : macosx_thunderbird_52_1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-04-24 Name : The remote Windows host contains a web browser that is affected by multiple v...
File : mozilla_firefox_53_0.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-04-24 Name : The remote Windows host contains a web browser that is affected by multiple v...
File : mozilla_firefox_52_1_esr.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-04-24 Name : The remote Windows host contains a web browser that is affected by multiple v...
File : mozilla_firefox_45_9_esr.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-04-24 Name : The remote macOS or Mac OS X host contains a web browser that is affected by ...
File : macosx_firefox_53_0.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-04-24 Name : The remote macOS or Mac OS X host contains a web browser that is affected by ...
File : macosx_firefox_52_1_esr.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-04-24 Name : The remote macOS or Mac OS X host contains a web browser that is affected by ...
File : macosx_firefox_45_9_esr.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-04-21 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_b8ee7a81a87943589b307dd1bd4c14b1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-04-21 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.
File : centos_RHSA-2017-1106.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-04-21 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.
File : centos_RHSA-2017-1104.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-14 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-3228-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-02-16 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-824.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-02-16 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3789.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2017-03-21 21:26:06
  • Multiple Updates
2017-03-17 17:24:58
  • Multiple Updates
2017-03-15 21:25:35
  • Multiple Updates
2017-02-17 13:26:42
  • Multiple Updates
2017-02-15 17:21:20
  • First insertion