Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 7.10 : libsoup vulnerability (USN-737-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 38092

Synopsis

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

Description

It was discovered that the Base64 encoding functions in libsoup did not properly handle large strings. If a user were tricked into connecting to a malicious server, an attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges.

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 libsoup2.2-8, libsoup2.2-dev and / or libsoup2.2-doc packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/737-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 38092

File Name: ubuntu_USN-737-1.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/23/2009

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libsoup2.2-8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libsoup2.2-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libsoup2.2-doc, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/16/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-0585

BID: 34100

CWE: 189

USN: 737-1