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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : H2 vulnerabilities (USN-6834-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 200489

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6834-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that H2 was vulnerable to deserialization of untrusted data. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-42392)

 It was discovered that H2 incorrectly handled some specially crafted connection URLs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-23221)

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 libh2-java package.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6834-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 200489

File Name: ubuntu_USN-6834-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/13/2024

Updated: 6/13/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-23221

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libh2-java

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/13/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/5/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-42392, CVE-2022-23221

USN: 6834-1