Ubuntu 5.04 : pike7.6 vulnerability (USN-367-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 27947

Synopsis

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

Description

A SQL injection was discovered in Pike's PostgreSQL module.
Applications using a PostgreSQL database and uncommon character encodings could be fooled into running arbitrary SQL commands, which could result in privilege escalation within the application, application data exposure, or denial of service.

Please refer to http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-288-1 for more detailled 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 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 27947

File Name: ubuntu_USN-367-1.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks

Published: 11/10/2007

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pike7.6-gtk, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pike7.6-bzip2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pike7.6-image, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pike7.6, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pike7.6-perl, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pike7.6-svg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pike7.6-gl, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pike7.6-core, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pike7.6-sane, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pike7.6-doc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pike7.6-mysql, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pike7.6-pg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pike7.6-gdbm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pike7.6-meta, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pike7.6-sdl, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pike7.6-pcre, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pike7.6-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pike7.6-odbc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pike7.6-manual, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pike7.6-reference

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

Patch Publication Date: 10/18/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/6/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-4041

USN: 367-1

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