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Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 : linux-source-2.6.10, linux-source-2.6.8.1 vulnerabilities (USN-143-1)

low Nessus Plugin ID 20536

Synopsis

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

Description

A Denial of Service vulnerability has been discovered in the ptrace() call on the amd64 platform. By calling ptrace() with specially crafted ('non-canonical') addresses, a local attacker could cause the kernel to crash. This only affects the amd64 platform. (CAN-2005-1762)

ZouNanHai discovered that a local user could hang the kernel by invoking syscall() with specially crafted arguments. This only affects the amd64 platform when running in the 32 bit compatibility mode.
(CAN-2005-1765).

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 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 20536

File Name: ubuntu_USN-143-1.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

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: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-doc-2.6.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-doc-2.6.8.1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-headers-2.6, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-headers-2.6-386, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-headers-2.6-686, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-headers-2.6-686-smp, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-headers-2.6-amd64-generic, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-headers-2.6-amd64-k8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-headers-2.6-amd64-k8-smp, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-headers-2.6-amd64-xeon, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-headers-2.6.8.1-5, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-headers-2.6.8.1-5-386, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-2.6-386, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-2.6-686, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-2.6-686-smp, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-2.6-amd64-generic, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-2.6-amd64-k8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-2.6-amd64-k8-smp, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-2.6-amd64-xeon, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-2.6.8.1-5-386, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-headers-2.6.8.1-5-686, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-headers-2.6.8.1-5-686-smp, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-headers-2.6.8.1-5-amd64-generic, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-headers-2.6.8.1-5-amd64-k8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-headers-2.6.8.1-5-amd64-k8-smp, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-headers-2.6.8.1-5-amd64-xeon, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-tree-2.6.8.1, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-2.6.8.1-5-686, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-2.6.8.1-5-686-smp, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-2.6.8.1-5-amd64-generic, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-2.6.8.1-5-amd64-k8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-2.6.8.1-5-amd64-k8-smp, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-2.6.8.1-5-amd64-xeon, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-patch-debian-2.6.8.1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-patch-ubuntu-2.6.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-source-2.6.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-source-2.6.8.1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-tree-2.6.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/27/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-1762, CVE-2005-1765

USN: 143-1