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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : libiberty vulnerabilities (USN-4326-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 135398

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4326-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that libiberty incorrectly handled parsing certain binaries. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted binary, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause libiberty to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected libiberty-dev package.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4326-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 135398

File Name: ubuntu_USN-4326-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/10/2020

Updated: 8/29/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous 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-2019-9070

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: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libiberty-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: 4/8/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/30/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-12641, CVE-2018-12697, CVE-2018-12698, CVE-2018-12934, CVE-2018-17794, CVE-2018-17985, CVE-2018-18483, CVE-2018-18484, CVE-2018-18700, CVE-2018-18701, CVE-2018-9138, CVE-2019-14250, CVE-2019-9070, CVE-2019-9071

USN: 4326-1