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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Erlang vulnerabilities (USN-3571-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 106838

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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-3571-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that the Erlang FTP module incorrectly handled certain CRLF sequences. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to inject arbitrary FTP commands. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
 (CVE-2014-1693)

 It was discovered that Erlang incorrectly checked CBC padding bytes. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a padding oracle attack and decrypt traffic. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2015-2774)

 It was discovered that Erlang incorrectly handled certain regular expressions. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Erlang to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-10253)

 Hanno Bck, Juraj Somorovsky and Craig Young discovered that the Erlang otp TLS server incorrectly handled error reporting. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a variation of the Bleichenbacher attack and decrypt traffic or sign messages. (CVE-2017-1000385)

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-3571-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 106838

File Name: ubuntu_USN-3571-1.nasl

Version: 3.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/15/2018

Updated: 8/27/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-10253

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:erlang-os-mon, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:erlang-mode, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:erlang-pman, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:erlang-percept, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:erlang, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:erlang-megaco, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:erlang-ic-java, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:erlang-test-server, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:erlang-public-key, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:erlang-src, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:erlang-asn1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:erlang-ssl, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:erlang-debugger, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:erlang-crypto, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:erlang-jinterface, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:erlang-odbc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:erlang-parsetools, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:erlang-ssh, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:erlang-common-test, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:erlang-examples, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:erlang-base-hipe, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:erlang-observer, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:erlang-dialyzer, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:erlang-wx, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:erlang-x11, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:erlang-tv, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:erlang-mnesia, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:erlang-inets, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:erlang-ic, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:erlang-nox, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:erlang-typer, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:erlang-syntax-tools, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:erlang-webtool, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:erlang-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:erlang-appmon, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:erlang-tools, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:erlang-edoc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:erlang-eunit, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:erlang-runtime-tools, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:erlang-corba, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:erlang-gs, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:erlang-reltool, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:erlang-eldap, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:erlang-snmp, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:erlang-base, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:erlang-xmerl, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:erlang-manpages, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:erlang-et, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:erlang-diameter, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:erlang-toolbar

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: 2/14/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/8/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-1693, CVE-2015-2774, CVE-2016-10253, CVE-2017-1000385

USN: 3571-1