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Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : Protocol Buffers vulnerability (USN-5490-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 162471

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5490-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that Protocol Buffers did not properly parse certain symbols. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or other unspecified impact.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue 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-5490-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 162471

File Name: ubuntu_USN-5490-1.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/22/2022

Updated: 8/27/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-22570

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libprotoc-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libprotobuf-java, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:protobuf-compiler, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-protobuf, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libprotobuf9v5, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libprotobuf-lite9v5, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libprotoc9v5, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libprotobuf-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:esm

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/21/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/26/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-22570

USN: 5490-1