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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 10.10 / 11.04 / 11.10 : t1lib vulnerability (USN-1316-1)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 57370
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Synopsis
The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.Description
Jonathan Brossard discovered that t1lib did not correctly handle certain malformed font files. If a user were tricked into using a specially crafted font file, a remote attacker could cause t1lib to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with user 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 libt1-5 package.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 57370
File Name: ubuntu_USN-1316-1.nasl
Version: 1.8
Type: Local
Agent: unix
Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Published: 12/22/2011
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
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 4.9
Percentile: 57.15
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.8
Temporal Score: 5
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libt1-5
Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 12/21/2011
Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/31/2011
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2011-0764
BID: 46941
USN: 1316-1