Ubuntu 4.10 : groff vulnerabilities (USN-43-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 20660

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena discovered that the auxiliary scripts 'eqn2graph' and 'pic2graph' created temporary files in an insecure way, which allowed exploitation of a race condition to create or overwrite files with the privileges of the user invoking the program.

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 groff and / or groff-base packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 20660

File Name: ubuntu_USN-43-1.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks

Published: 1/15/2006

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:groff-base, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:groff, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/20/2004

Reference Information

USN: 43-1

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