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Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : heartbeat vulnerability (USN-335-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 27914

Synopsis

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

Description

Yan Rong Ge discovered that heartbeat did not sufficiently verify some packet input data, which could lead to an out-of-boundary memory access. A remote attacker could exploit this to crash the daemon (Denial of Service).

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.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/335-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 27914

File Name: ubuntu_USN-335-1.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: 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: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:stonith, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libstonith-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpils0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libstonith0, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpils-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:heartbeat, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ldirectord, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:heartbeat-dev

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/16/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-3121

USN: 335-1