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Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : apr-util vulnerability (USN-5870-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 171484

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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 / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5870-1 advisory.

 Ronald Crane discovered that APR-util did not properly handled memory when encoding or decoding certain input data. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause 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-5870-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 171484

File Name: ubuntu_USN-5870-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/15/2023

Updated: 8/29/2024

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: 2.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-25147

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libaprutil1-dbd-odbc, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libaprutil1-dbd-mysql, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libaprutil1, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libaprutil1-dbd-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libaprutil1-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libaprutil1-ldap, 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: 2/14/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/31/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-25147

USN: 5870-1