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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : flightcrew vulnerabilities (USN-4055-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 126745

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Synopsis

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

Description

Mike Salvatore discovered that FlightCrew improperly handled certain malformed EPUB files. An attacker could potentially use this vulnerability to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2019-13032)

Mike Salvatore discovered that FlightCrew mishandled certain malformed EPUB files. An attacker could use this vulnerability to write arbitrary files to the filesystem. (CVE-2019-13241)

Mike Salvatore discovered that the version of Zipios included in FlightCrew mishandled certain malformed ZIP files. An attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a denial of service or consume system resources. (CVE-2019-13453).

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 flightcrew, libflightcrew-dev and / or libflightcrew0v5 packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4055-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 126745

File Name: ubuntu_USN-4055-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/16/2019

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-2019-13241

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:flightcrew, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libflightcrew-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libflightcrew0v5, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts

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: 7/15/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/28/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-13032, CVE-2019-13241, CVE-2019-13453

USN: 4055-1