Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 : linux-source-2.6.10, linux-source-2.6.8.1 vulnerabilities (USN-187-1)

low Nessus Plugin ID 20599

Synopsis

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

Description

A Denial of Service vulnerability was detected in the stack segment fault handler. A local attacker could exploit this by causing stack fault exceptions under special circumstances (scheduling), which lead to a kernel crash. (CAN-2005-1767)

Vasiliy Averin discovered a Denial of Service vulnerability in the 'tiocgdev' ioctl call and in the 'routing_ioctl' function. By calling fget() and fput() in special ways, a local attacker could exploit this to destroy file descriptor structures and crash the kernel.
(CAN-2005-3044).

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: 20599

File Name: ubuntu_USN-187-1.nasl

Version: 1.17

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: 2.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-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-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-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-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-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-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, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-tree-2.6.8.1, 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: 9/25/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/4/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-1767, CVE-2005-3044

USN: 187-1

Detections

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