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Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : Graphite2 vulnerability (USN-5657-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 165716

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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-5657-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that Graphite2 mishandled specially crafted files. 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 libgraphite2-3 and / or libgraphite2-dev packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5657-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 165716

File Name: ubuntu_USN-5657-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/5/2022

Updated: 8/27/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, 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-2018-7999

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/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:libgraphite2-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:esm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgraphite2-3

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: 10/5/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/9/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-7999

USN: 5657-1