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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : ldns vulnerabilities (USN-3491-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 104784

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Leon Weber discovered that the ldns-keygen tool incorrectly set permissions on private keys. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain generated private keys. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2014-3209)

Stephan Zeisberg discovered that ldns incorrectly handled memory when processing data. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause ldns to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-1000231, CVE-2017-1000232).

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

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3491-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 104784

File Name: ubuntu_USN-3491-1.nasl

Version: 3.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/27/2017

Updated: 10/20/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-1000232

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libldns1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-ldns, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ldnsutils, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libldns-dev

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/22/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/16/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3209, CVE-2017-1000231, CVE-2017-1000232

USN: 3491-1