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Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 : xine-lib vulnerability (USN-196-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 20610

Synopsis

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

Description

Ulf Harnhammar discovered a format string vulnerability in the CDDB module's cache file handling in the Xine library, which is used by packages such as xine-ui, totem-xine, and gxine.

By tricking an user into playing a particular audio CD which has a specially crafted CDDB entry, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application. Since CDDB servers usually allow anybody to add and modify information, this exploit does not even require a particular CDDB server to be selected.

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 libxine-dev and / or libxine1 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 20610

File Name: ubuntu_USN-196-1.nasl

Version: 1.19

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: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxine1, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxine-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/10/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/8/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-2337, CVE-2005-2967

BID: 15044

USN: 196-1