Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 : gedit vulnerability (USN-138-1)

low Nessus Plugin ID 20530

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

A format string vulnerability has been discovered in gedit. Calling the program with specially crafted file names caused a buffer overflow, which could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the gedit user.

This becomes security relevant if e. g. your web browser is configued to open URLs in gedit. If you never open untrusted file names or URLs in gedit, this flaw does not affect you.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected gedit, gedit-common and / or gedit-dev packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 20530

File Name: ubuntu_USN-138-1.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks

Published: 1/15/2006

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gedit, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gedit-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gedit-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/9/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-1686

USN: 138-1

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