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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : EDK II vulnerabilities (USN-4684-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 144785

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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 / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4684-1 advisory.

 Laszlo Ersek discovered that EDK II incorrectly validated certain signed images. An attacker could possibly use this issue with a specially crafted image to cause EDK II to hang, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
 (CVE-2019-14562)

 It was discovered that EDK II incorrectly parsed signed PKCS #7 data. An attacker could use this issue to cause EDK II to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
 (CVE-2019-14584)

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-4684-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 144785

File Name: ubuntu_USN-4684-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/7/2021

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: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-14584

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ovmf, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:qemu-efi, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:qemu-efi-arm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:qemu-efi-aarch64

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/7/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/23/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-14562, CVE-2019-14584

USN: 4684-1