Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 : bzip2 vulnerability (USN-161-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 20567

Synopsis

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

Description

USN-158-1 fixed a command injection vulnerability in the 'zgrep' utility. It was determined that the 'bzgrep' counterpart in the bzip2 package is vulnerable to the same flaw.

bzgrep did not handle shell metacharacters like '|' and '&' properly when they occurred in input file names. This could be exploited to execute arbitrary commands with user privileges if bzgrep was run in an untrusted directory with specially crafted file names.

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Solution

Update the affected bzip2, libbz2-1.0 and / or libbz2-dev packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 20567

File Name: ubuntu_USN-161-1.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks

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: 5.5

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: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libbz2-1.0, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libbz2-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:bzip2

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/4/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-0758

USN: 161-1

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