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Ubuntu 5.10 : libcairo vulnerability (USN-265-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 21151

Synopsis

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

Description

When rendering glyphs, the cairo graphics rendering library did not check the maximum length of character strings. A request to display an excessively long string with cairo caused a program crash due to an X library error.

Mike Davis discovered that this could be turned into a Denial of Service attack in Evolution. An email with an attachment with very long lines caused Evolution to crash repeatedly until that email was manually removed from the mail folder.

This only affects Ubuntu 5.10. Previous Ubuntu releases did not use libcairo for text rendering.

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 libcairo2, libcairo2-dev and / or libcairo2-doc packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 21151

File Name: ubuntu_USN-265-1.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/27/2006

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: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcairo2-doc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcairo2-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcairo2

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/23/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-0528

USN: 265-1