Ubuntu 5.10 : libmms vulnerability (USN-309-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 27884

Synopsis

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

Description

Several buffer overflows were found in libmms. By tricking a user into opening a specially crafted remote multimedia stream with an application using libmms, a remote attacker could overwrite an arbitrary memory portion with zeros, thereby crashing the program.

In Ubuntu 5.10, this affects the GStreamer MMS plugin (gstreamer0.8-mms). Other Ubuntu releases do not support this library.

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 libmms-dev and / or libmms0 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 27884

File Name: ubuntu_USN-309-1.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks

Published: 11/10/2007

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmms-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmms0, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.10

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

Patch Publication Date: 7/6/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/19/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-2200

USN: 309-1

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