Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.704987
Category:	Debian Local Security Checks
Title:	Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-4987-1)
Summary:	The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'squashfs-tools' package(s) announced via the DSA-4987-1 advisory.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'squashfs-tools' package(s) announced via the DSA-4987-1 advisory. Vulnerability Insight: Richard Weinberger reported that unsquashfs in squashfs-tools, the tools to create and extract Squashfs filesystems, does not check for duplicate filenames within a directory. An attacker can take advantage of this flaw for writing to arbitrary files to the filesystem if a malformed Squashfs image is processed. For the oldstable distribution (buster), this problem has been fixed in version 1:4.3-12+deb10u2. For the stable distribution (bullseye), this problem has been fixed in version 1:4.4-2+deb11u2. We recommend that you upgrade your squashfs-tools packages. For the detailed security status of squashfs-tools please refer to its security tracker page at: [link moved to references] Affected Software/OS: 'squashfs-tools' package(s) on Debian 10, Debian 11. Solution: Please install the updated package(s). CVSS Score: 5.8 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2021-41072 Debian Security Information: DSA-4987 (Google Search) https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4987 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-29 https://github.com/plougher/squashfs-tools/commit/e0485802ec72996c20026da320650d8362f555bd https://github.com/plougher/squashfs-tools/issues/72#issuecomment-913833405 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00017.html
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