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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : EDK II vulnerabilities (USN-7060-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 208691

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7060-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that EDK II did not check the buffer length in XHCI,

 which could lead to a stack overflow. A local attacker could potentially use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected

 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2019-0161)

 Laszlo Ersek discovered that EDK II incorrectly handled recursion. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause EDK II to consume resources, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected

 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-28210)

 Satoshi Tanda discovered that EDK II incorrectly handled decompressing certain images. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause EDK II to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-28211)

 It was discovered that EDK II incorrectly decoded certain strings. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause EDK II to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only

 affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-38575)

 It was discovered that EDK II had integer underflow vulnerability in

 SmmEntryPoint, which could result in a buffer overflow. An attacker could potentially use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2021-38578)

 Elison Niven discovered that OpenSSL, vendored in EDK II, incorrectly

 handled the c_rehash script. A local attacker could possibly use this

 issue to execute arbitrary commands when c_rehash is run. This issue

 only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-1292)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7060-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 208691

File Name: ubuntu_USN-7060-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/10/2024

Updated: 10/10/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-1292

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ovmf, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:qemu-efi, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:qemu-efi-arm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:qemu-efi-aarch64, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ovmf-ia32

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: 10/10/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/27/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-0161, CVE-2021-28210, CVE-2021-28211, CVE-2021-38575, CVE-2021-38578, CVE-2022-1292

USN: 7060-1