Detections
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Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 / 5.10 : w3c-libwww vulnerability (USN-220-1)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 20762
Synopsis
The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.Description
Sam Varshavchik discovered several buffer overflows in the HTBoundary_put_block() function. By sending specially crafted HTTP multipart/byteranges MIME messages, a malicious HTTP server could trigger an out of bounds memory access in the libwww library, which causes the program that uses the library to crash.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: Medium
ID: 20762
File Name: ubuntu_USN-220-1.nasl
Version: 1.15
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Published: 1/21/2006
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: 4.4
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4.3
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libwww-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libwww-ssl-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libwww0, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libwww-ssl0, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10
Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l
Patch Publication Date: 12/1/2005
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2005-3183