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Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : The Sleuth Kit vulnerabilities (USN-4765-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 183571

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4765-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that The Sleuth Kit did not properly handle certain entires in FAT file systems. An attacker could use this vulnerability to mislead an analyst and obscure their activities. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. (CVE-2012-5619)

 It was discovered that The Sleuth Kit mishandled certain crafted ISO 9660 images. If an analyst were tricked into opening a malicious image, an attacker could cause a denial of service (crash).
 (CVE-2017-13755)

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 libtsk-dev, libtsk13 and / or sleuthkit packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4765-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 183571

File Name: ubuntu_USN-4765-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/20/2023

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: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-5619

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-13755

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:sleuthkit, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libtsk-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libtsk13, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libtsk3-3, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:esm

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: 3/15/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/4/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-5619, CVE-2017-13755

USN: 4765-1