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Ubuntu 17.10 : linux-raspi2 vulnerabilities (USN-3581-3)

high Nessus Plugin ID 106971

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

Mohamed Ghannam discovered that the IPv4 raw socket implementation in the Linux kernel contained a race condition leading to uninitialized pointer usage. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-17712)

ChunYu Wang discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the SCTP protocol implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code, (CVE-2017-15115)

Mohamed Ghannam discovered a use-after-free vulnerability in the DCCP protocol implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-8824).

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 linux-image-4.13-raspi2 and / or linux-image-raspi2 packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3581-3/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 106971

File Name: ubuntu_USN-3581-3.nasl

Version: 3.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/23/2018

Updated: 5/11/2023

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: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/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:linux-image-raspi2, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:17.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-4.13-raspi2

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: 2/23/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/15/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-15115, CVE-2017-17712, CVE-2017-8824

USN: 3581-3