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Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS : Open-iSCSI vulnerabilities (USN-6259-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 178948

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6259-1 advisory.

 Jos Wetzels, Stanislav Dashevskyi, and Amine Amri discovered that Open-iSCSI incorrectly handled certain checksums for IP packets. An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information.
 (CVE-2020-13987)

 Jos Wetzels, Stanislav Dashevskyi, Amine Amri discovered that Open-iSCSI incorrectly handled certain parsing TCP MSS options. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash or cause unexpected behavior. (CVE-2020-13988)

 Amine Amri and Stanislav Dashevskyi discovered that Open-iSCSI incorrectly handled certain TCP data. An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information. (CVE-2020-17437)

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 iscsiuio and / or open-iscsi packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6259-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 178948

File Name: ubuntu_USN-6259-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/27/2023

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: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-17437

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.2

Temporal Score: 7.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:esm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:iscsiuio, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:esm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:open-iscsi

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/27/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/11/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-13987, CVE-2020-13988, CVE-2020-17437

USN: 6259-1