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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Go Text vulnerabilities (USN-5873-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 171575

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5873-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that Go Text incorrectly handled certain encodings. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
 (CVE-2020-14040)

 It was discovered that Go Text incorrectly handled certain BCP 47 language tags. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. CVE-2020-28851, CVE-2020-28852 and CVE-2021-38561 affected only Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-28851, CVE-2020-28852, CVE-2021-38561, CVE-2022-32149)

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 golang-golang-x-text-dev and / or golang-x-text-dev packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5873-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 171575

File Name: ubuntu_USN-5873-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/16/2023

Updated: 8/28/2024

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: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-28852

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-32149

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:golang-golang-x-text-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:golang-x-text-dev

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/16/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/17/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-14040, CVE-2020-28851, CVE-2020-28852, CVE-2021-38561, CVE-2022-32149

USN: 5873-1