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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Linux firmware vulnerability (USN-4351-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 136400

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

Eli Biham and Lior Neumann discovered that certain Bluetooth devices incorrectly validated key exchange parameters. An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information.

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 linux-firmware, nic-firmware and / or scsi-firmware packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4351-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 136400

File Name: ubuntu_USN-4351-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/7/2020

Updated: 10/20/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-5383

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-firmware, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nic-firmware, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:scsi-firmware, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/6/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/7/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-5383

USN: 4351-1