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Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : usbredir vulnerability (USN-5784-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 169461

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5784-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that usbredir incorrectly handled memory when serializing large amounts of data in the case of a slow or blocked destination. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause applications using usbredir to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

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-5784-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 169461

File Name: ubuntu_USN-5784-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/3/2023

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: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3700

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libusbredirhost-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libusbredirhost1, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libusbredirparser-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libusbredirparser1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:usbredirserver, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:esm

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/3/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/12/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3700

USN: 5784-1