Detections
Analytics

Ubuntu 11.10 / 12.04 LTS / 12.10 : apt vulnerability (USN-1762-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 65571

Language:

Synopsis

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

Description

Ansgar Burchardt discovered that APT incorrectly handled InRelease files. If a remote attacker were able to perform a man-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could potentially be used to install altered packages.

This update corrects the issue by disabling InRelease file support completely. Please note that this update breaks third-party repositories that provide only a InRelease file and no separate Release and Release.gpg files. The default Ubuntu repositories do not use InRelease files.

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 apt package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1762-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 65571

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1762-1.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/15/2013

Updated: 9/19/2019

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:apt, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/14/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/21/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-1051

BID: 58700

USN: 1762-1