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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 10.10 / 11.04 : apturl vulnerability (USN-1132-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 55093

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

It was discovered that apturl incorrectly handled certain long URLs.
If a user were tricked into opening a very long URL, an attacker could cause their desktop session to crash, leading to a denial of service.

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Solution

Update the affected apturl-common package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1132-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 55093

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1132-1.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/13/2011

Updated: 9/19/2019

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: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:apturl-common, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/16/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/16/2011

Reference Information

BID: 47885

USN: 1132-1