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Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 20.04 ESM : uriparser vulnerabilities (USN-5256-2)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 183589

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 20.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5256-2 advisory.

 - An issue was discovered in uriparser before 0.9.6. It performs invalid free operations in uriFreeUriMembers and uriMakeOwner. (CVE-2021-46141)

 - An issue was discovered in uriparser before 0.9.6. It performs invalid free operations in uriNormalizeSyntax. (CVE-2021-46142)

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 liburiparser-dev and / or liburiparser1 packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5256-2

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 183589

File Name: ubuntu_USN-5256-2.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/20/2023

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: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-46142

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:esm, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:esm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:liburiparser-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:liburiparser1

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: 7/18/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/6/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-46141, CVE-2021-46142

USN: 5256-2