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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : P7ZIP vulnerabilities (USN-3913-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 123074

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3913-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that p7zip did not correctly handle certain malformed archives. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted archive with p7zip, then p7zip could be made to crash, possibly leading to abitrary code execution.

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 p7zip and / or p7zip-full packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3913-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 123074

File Name: ubuntu_USN-3913-1.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/25/2019

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: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-17969

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-2335

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:p7zip-full, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:p7zip, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts

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: 3/21/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/7/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-2335, CVE-2017-17969

USN: 3913-1