It was discovered that ZeroMQ, a lightweight messaging kernel library does not properly handle connecting peers before a handshake is completed. A remote, unauthenticated client connecting to an application using the libzmq library, running with a socket listening with CURVE encryption/authentication enabled can take advantage of this flaw to cause a denial of service affecting authenticated and encrypted clients.
For Debian 9 stretch, this problem has been fixed in version 4.2.1-4+deb9u3.
We recommend that you upgrade your zeromq3 packages.
For the detailed security status of zeromq3 please refer to its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/zeromq3
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.
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DLA-2443-1. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#
include("compat.inc");
if (description)
{
script_id(142861);
script_version("1.3");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/11/20");
script_cve_id("CVE-2020-15166");
script_name(english:"Debian DLA-2443-1 : zeromq3 security update");
script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated packages.");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"It was discovered that ZeroMQ, a lightweight messaging kernel library
does not properly handle connecting peers before a handshake is
completed. A remote, unauthenticated client connecting to an
application using the libzmq library, running with a socket listening
with CURVE encryption/authentication enabled can take advantage of
this flaw to cause a denial of service affecting authenticated and
encrypted clients.
For Debian 9 stretch, this problem has been fixed in version
4.2.1-4+deb9u3.
We recommend that you upgrade your zeromq3 packages.
For the detailed security status of zeromq3 please refer to its
security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/zeromq3
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."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00017.html"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/zeromq3"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/zeromq3"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:"Upgrade the affected libzmq3-dev, libzmq5, and libzmq5-dbg packages."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2020-15166");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libzmq3-dev");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libzmq5");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libzmq5-dbg");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2020/09/11");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2020/11/10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2020/11/12");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("debian_package.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"libzmq3-dev", reference:"4.2.1-4+deb9u3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"libzmq5", reference:"4.2.1-4+deb9u3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"libzmq5-dbg", reference:"4.2.1-4+deb9u3")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
else security_warning(0);
exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
debian | debian_linux | libzmq3-dev | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libzmq3-dev |
debian | debian_linux | libzmq5 | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libzmq5 |
debian | debian_linux | libzmq5-dbg | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libzmq5-dbg |
debian | debian_linux | 9.0 | cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0 |