Ubuntu 17.10 / 18.04 LTS : xapian-core vulnerability (USN-3709-1)

Medium Nessus Plugin ID 111006

Synopsis

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

Description

It was discovered that Xapian-core incorrectly handled certain files.
An attacker could possibly use this to execute arbitrary code.

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Solution

Update the affected libxapian30 and / or xapian-tools packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 111006

File Name: ubuntu_USN-3709-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2018/07/11

Modified: 2018/08/31

Dependencies: 12634

Risk Information

Risk Factor: Medium

CVSSv2

Base Score: 4.3

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

CVSSv3

Base Score: 6.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxapian30, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xapian-tools, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:17.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts

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

Patch Publication Date: 2018/07/10

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-0499

USN: 3709-1