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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Tex Live vulnerabilities (USN-3788-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 118081

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Synopsis

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

Description

Jakub Wilk discovered that Tex Live incorrectly handled certain files.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2015-5700)

It was discovered that Tex Live incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2018-17407).

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-3788-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 118081

File Name: ubuntu_USN-3788-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/12/2018

Updated: 10/21/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-17407

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:texlive-binaries, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libkpathsea-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libkpathsea6, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libptexenc-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libptexenc1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libsynctex-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libsynctex1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libtexlua52, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libtexlua52-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libtexluajit-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libtexluajit2

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/11/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/25/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-5700, CVE-2018-17407

USN: 3788-1