Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 : rpm vulnerability (USN-378-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 27960

Synopsis

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

Description

An error was found in the RPM library's handling of query reports. In some locales, certain RPM packages would cause the library to crash.
If a user was tricked into querying a specially crafted RPM package, the flaw could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges.

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: Medium

ID: 27960

File Name: ubuntu_USN-378-1.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: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:librpm-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:lsb-rpm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:rpm, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:librpm4, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-rpm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python2.4-rpm

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/3/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-5466

USN: 378-1

Detections

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