Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 8.04 LTS / 9.04 / 9.10 / 10.04 LTS : dpkg vulnerability (USN-986-3)

Medium Nessus Plugin ID 49305

Synopsis

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

Description

USN-986-1 fixed vulnerabilities in bzip2. dpkg statically links against libbz2 and needed to be rebuilt to use the updated libbz2.

An integer overflow was discovered in bzip2. If a user or automated system were tricked into decompressing a crafted bz2 file, an attacker could cause bzip2 or any application linked against libbz2 to crash or possibly execute code as the user running 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 dpkg, dpkg-dev and / or dselect packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/986-3/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 49305

File Name: ubuntu_USN-986-3.nasl

Version: 1.20

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2010/09/21

Updated: 2019/09/19

Dependencies: 12634

Risk Information

Risk Factor: Medium

CVSS v2.0

Base Score: 5.1

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dpkg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dpkg-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dselect, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.10

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

Exploit Available: false

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2010/09/20

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2010/09/28

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-0405

USN: 986-3

IAVB: 2010-B-0083