Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 / 7.10 : gnumeric vulnerability (USN-604-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 32054

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

Thilo Pfennig and Morten Welinder discovered that the XLS spreadsheet handling code in Gnumeric did not correctly calculate needed memory sizes. If a user or automated system were tricked into loading a specially crafted XLS document, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges.

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Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/604-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 32054

File Name: ubuntu_USN-604-1.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/25/2008

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gnumeric, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gnumeric-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gnumeric-doc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gnumeric-gtk, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gnumeric-plugins-extra, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 4/21/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-0668

CWE: 189

USN: 604-1