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Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 / 7.10 : pwlib vulnerability (USN-561-1)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 29917
Synopsis
The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.Description
Jose Miguel Esparza discovered that pwlib did not correctly handle large string lengths. A remote attacker could send specially crafted packets to applications linked against pwlib (e.g. Ekiga) causing them to crash, leading to a denial of service.Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Update the affected packages.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 29917
File Name: ubuntu_USN-561-1.nasl
Version: 1.16
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Published: 1/10/2008
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: 4.4
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpt-1.10.0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpt-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpt-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpt-doc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpt-plugins-alsa, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpt-plugins-avc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpt-plugins-dc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpt-plugins-oss, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpt-plugins-v4l, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpt-plugins-v4l2, 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: 1/8/2008
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2007-4897