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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : PCSC-Lite vulnerability (USN-3176-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 96719

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

Peter Wu discovered that the PC/SC service did not correctly handle certain resources. A local attacker could use this issue to cause PC/SC to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code with root 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 libpcsclite-dev, libpcsclite1 and / or pcscd packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3176-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 96719

File Name: ubuntu_USN-3176-1.nasl

Version: 3.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/24/2017

Updated: 10/23/2023

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-10109

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pcscd, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpcsclite-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpcsclite1

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/23/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/23/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-10109

USN: 3176-1