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Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : wv2 vulnerability (USN-300-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 27875

Synopsis

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

Description

libwv2 did not sufficiently check the validity of its input. Certain invalid Word documents caused a buffer overflow. By tricking a user into opening a specially crafted Word file with an application that uses libwv2, this could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges.

The only packaged application using this library is KWord.

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 libwv2-1, libwv2-1c2 and / or libwv2-dev packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/300-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 27875

File Name: ubuntu_USN-300-1.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/10/2007

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: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libwv2-1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libwv2-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libwv2-1c2

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/14/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-2197

USN: 300-1