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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Liblouis vulnerabilities (USN-3408-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 102956

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3408-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that an illegal address access can be made in Liblouis. A remote attacker can take advantange of this to access sensitive information. (CVE-2017-13738, CVE-2017-13744)

 It was discovered a heap-based buffer overflow that causes bytes out-of-bounds write in Liblouis. A remote attacker can use this to denial of service or remote code execution. (CVE-2017-13739)

 It was discovered a stack-based buffer overflow in Liblouis. A remote attacker can use this to denial of service or possibly unspecified other impact. (CVE-2017-13740, CVE-2017-13742)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3408-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 102956

File Name: ubuntu_USN-3408-1.nasl

Version: 3.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/5/2017

Updated: 8/27/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-13740

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:liblouis-data, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-louis, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3-louis, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:liblouis-bin, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:liblouis9, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:liblouis-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:liblouis2

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/4/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/29/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-13738, CVE-2017-13739, CVE-2017-13740, CVE-2017-13742, CVE-2017-13744

USN: 3408-1