DSA-3949-1 augeas -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3949-1 augeas -- security update

Date Reported:

21 Aug 2017

Affected Packages:

augeas

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 872400.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-7555.

More information:

Han Han of Red Hat discovered that augeas, a configuration editing tool, improperly handled some escaped strings. A remote attacker could leverage this flaw by sending maliciously crafted strings, thus causing an augeas-enabled application to crash or potentially execute arbitrary code.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.0-0.2+deb8u2.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.8.0-1+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your augeas packages.