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Ubuntu 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS : dwarves vulnerabilities (USN-6215-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 178212

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6215-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that dwarves incorrectly handled certain memory operations under certain circumstances.
 An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause dwarves to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-3534, CVE-2022-3606)

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 dwarves package.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6215-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 178212

File Name: ubuntu_USN-6215-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/12/2023

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: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.7

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-3534

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:esm, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dwarves

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/11/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/17/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-3534, CVE-2022-3606

USN: 6215-1