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Ubuntu 21.04 : Please vulnerabilities (USN-4955-1)
high Nessus Plugin ID 149519
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Synopsis
The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.Description
The remote Ubuntu 21.04 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4955-1 advisory.Matthias Gerstner discovered that Please contained multiple security issues. A local attacker could use these issues to cause Please to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly escalate privileges.
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 librust-pleaser-dev and / or pleaser packages.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 149519
File Name: ubuntu_USN-4955-1.nasl
Version: 1.6
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Published: 5/17/2021
Updated: 8/28/2024
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, 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 Score Source: CVE-2021-31155
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:librust-pleaser-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:21.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pleaser
Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2021
Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/17/2021
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2021-31153, CVE-2021-31154, CVE-2021-31155
USN: 4955-1