Ubuntu 4.10 : libxpm4 vulnerability (USN-27-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 20642

Synopsis

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

Description

Chris Evans discovered several stack overflows in the versions of libXpm shipped by X.Org, XFree86, and LessTif. These overflows were fixed in the Warty development tree before its release. Mathieu Herrb of OpenBSD subsequently discovered that the original patch was insufficient to address these overflows, and thus the version of libxpm4 shipped with Warty is still vulnerable to the original overflows.

These overflows do not allow privilege escalation through the X server; the overflows are in a client-side library, allowing arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user viewing a malicious pixmap.

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: 20642

File Name: ubuntu_USN-27-1.nasl

Version: 1.16

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: 5.8

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:libxaw7, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xfonts-scalable, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xfwp, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xmh, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xlibmesa-glu, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxmuu-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xfonts-100dpi-transcoded, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libice6-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xfonts-base-transcoded, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xfonts-75dpi, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxrandr2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libsm6, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxtrap6, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libsm-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xlibosmesa4, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xvfb, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxext6, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdps-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxext6-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxt6, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xlibs-static-pic, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxext-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxp-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdps1-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xlibmesa3-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxtst6, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxt-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xlibs-pic, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxp6-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxaw6, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxv1-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xlibmesa-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xserver-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxaw7-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxv1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxi6, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xlibosmesa-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxrandr2-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxi6-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:x-window-system-core, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xlibmesa3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xlibmesa-glu-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xlibs-data, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xlibs-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libice-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxaw7-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xlibs-static-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xlibmesa-dri, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:x-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xspecs, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdps1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxv-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:x-window-system-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xlibmesa-gl, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xutils, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxmu-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xfonts-75dpi-transcoded, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:x-window-system, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxi-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xfonts-cyrillic, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxt6-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxrandr-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:proxymngr, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxtst6-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libsm6-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xserver-xfree86, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:lbxproxy, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xfs, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:twm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libx11-6-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xlibosmesa4-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxaw6-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxpm4, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxtrap6-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xlibs-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xserver-xfree86-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxpm4-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxmuu1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xfree86-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xlibmesa-glu-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxft1-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxp6, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xnest, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xlibmesa-dri-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xlibmesa-gl-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxtst-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xdm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xprt, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxaw6-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xbase-clients, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xfonts-base, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxmuu1-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xfonts-100dpi, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pm-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libx11-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxmu6, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xterm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libx11-6, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xlibs, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxft1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxmu6-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxpm-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libice6, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxtrap-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xlibmesa-gl-dbg

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/17/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-0687, CVE-2004-0688

USN: 27-1

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