Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 : mimetex vulnerabilities (USN-844-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 42079

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

Chris Evans discovered that mimeTeX incorrectly handled certain long tags. An attacker could exploit this with a crafted mimeTeX expression and cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2009-1382)

Chris Evans discovered that mimeTeX contained certain directives that may be unsuitable for handling untrusted user input. This update fixed the issue by disabling the \input and \counter tags. (CVE-2009-2459).

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 mimetex package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/844-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 42079

File Name: ubuntu_USN-844-1.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/9/2009

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: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mimetex, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.04

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

Patch Publication Date: 10/8/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-1382, CVE-2009-2459

CWE: 119

USN: 844-1