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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 : qt4-x11 vulnerability (USN-829-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 40944

Synopsis

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

Description

It was discovered that Qt did not properly handle certificates with NULL characters in the Subject Alternative Name field of X.509 certificates. An attacker could exploit this to perform a man in the middle attack to view sensitive information or alter encrypted communications. (CVE-2009-2700).

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://usn.ubuntu.com/829-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 40944

File Name: ubuntu_USN-829-1.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/11/2009

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: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libqt4-assistant, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libqt4-core, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libqt4-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libqt4-dbus, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libqt4-debug, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libqt4-designer, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libqt4-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libqt4-dev-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libqt4-gui, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libqt4-help, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libqt4-network, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libqt4-opengl, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libqt4-opengl-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libqt4-qt3support, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libqt4-script, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libqt4-scripttools, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libqt4-sql, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libqt4-sql-mysql, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libqt4-sql-odbc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libqt4-sql-psql, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libqt4-sql-sqlite, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libqt4-sql-sqlite2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libqt4-svg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libqt4-test, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libqt4-webkit, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libqt4-webkit-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libqt4-xml, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libqt4-xmlpatterns, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libqt4-xmlpatterns-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libqtcore4, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libqtgui4, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:qt4-demos, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:qt4-demos-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:qt4-designer, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:qt4-dev-tools, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:qt4-dev-tools-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:qt4-doc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:qt4-doc-html, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:qt4-qmake, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:qt4-qtconfig, 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/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Patch Publication Date: 9/10/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-2700

CWE: 264

USN: 829-1