Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : MiniUPnP vulnerability (USN-2780-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 86494

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

Aleksandar Nikolic discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in the XML parser functionality of the MiniUPnP library. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code with privileges of the user running an application that uses the MiniUPnP library.

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 libminiupnpc-dev, libminiupnpc8 and / or miniupnpc packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2780-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 86494

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2780-1.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/21/2015

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: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-6031

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:libminiupnpc8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:miniupnpc, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libminiupnpc-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: 10/20/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/2/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-6031

USN: 2780-1