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Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 : dpkg, ia32-libs, amd64-libs vulnerabilities (USN-151-2)

high Nessus Plugin ID 20550

Synopsis

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

Description

USN-148-1 and USN-151-1 fixed two security flaws in zlib, which could be exploited to cause Denial of Service attacks or even arbitrary code execution with malicious data streams.

Most applications use the shared library provided by the 'zlib1g' package; however, some packages contain copies of the affected zlib code, so they need to be upgraded as well.

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: High

ID: 20550

File Name: ubuntu_USN-151-2.nasl

Version: 1.15

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: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dselect, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:amd64-libs-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ia32-libs, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:amd64-libs, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dpkg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ia32-libs-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dpkg-doc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dpkg-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10

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

Patch Publication Date: 7/22/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-1849, CVE-2005-2096

USN: 151-2