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Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 : nasm vulnerability (USN-128-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 20518

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

Josh Bressers discovered a buffer overflow in the ieee_putascii() function of nasm. If an attacker tricked a user into assembling a malicious source file, they could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user that runs nasm.

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Solution

Update the affected nasm package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 20518

File Name: ubuntu_USN-128-1.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/15/2006

Updated: 1/19/2021

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: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nasm

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

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/21/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-1194

USN: 128-1