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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : db5.3 vulnerability (USN-4004-2)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 125720

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Synopsis

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

Description

USN-4004-1 fixed a vulnerability in Berkeley DB. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM.

Original advisory details :

It was discovered that Berkeley DB incorrectly handled certain inputs.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to read sensitive information.

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 packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4004-2/

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 125720

File Name: ubuntu_USN-4004-2.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/5/2019

Updated: 5/16/2024

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: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-8457

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:db5.3-sql-util, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:db5.3-util, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdb5.3-sql, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdb5.3-sql-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdb5.3

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/4/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/30/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-8457

USN: 4004-2