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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : flightcrew vulnerabilities (USN-4055-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 126745

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4055-1 advisory.

 Mike Salvatore discovered that FlightCrew improperly handled certain malformed EPUB files. An attacker could potentially use this vulnerability to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2019-13032)

 Mike Salvatore discovered that FlightCrew mishandled certain malformed EPUB files. An attacker could use this vulnerability to write arbitrary files to the filesystem. (CVE-2019-13241)

 Mike Salvatore discovered that the version of Zipios included in FlightCrew mishandled certain malformed ZIP files. An attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a denial of service or consume system resources. (CVE-2019-13453)

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 flightcrew, libflightcrew-dev and / or libflightcrew0v5 packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4055-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 126745

File Name: ubuntu_USN-4055-1.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/16/2019

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-2019-13241

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libflightcrew0v5, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:flightcrew, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libflightcrew-dev

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: 7/15/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/28/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-13032, CVE-2019-13241, CVE-2019-13453

USN: 4055-1