Ubuntu 5.10 / 6.06 LTS / 6.10 : geoip vulnerability (USN-412-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 28001

Synopsis

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

Description

Dean Gaudet discovered that the GeoIP update tool did not validate the filename responses from the update server. A malicious server, or man-in-the-middle system posing as a server, could write to arbitrary files with user privileges.

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Solution

Update the affected geoip-bin, libgeoip-dev and / or libgeoip1 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 28001

File Name: ubuntu_USN-412-1.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, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgeoip-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:geoip-bin, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgeoip1, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.10

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/23/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-0159

BID: 21959

USN: 412-1

Detections

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