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Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : libxfont, xorg vulnerabilities (USN-344-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 27923

Synopsis

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

Description

iDefense security researchers found several integer overflows in X.org's font handling library. By using a specially crafted Type1 CID font file, a local user could exploit these to crash the X server or execute arbitrary code with root privileges.

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/344-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 27923

File Name: ubuntu_USN-344-1.nasl

Version: 1.19

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: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxaw7, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xfonts-scalable, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xfwp, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xmh, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxxf86rush-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xlibmesa-glu, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxxf86vm-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxmuu-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xfonts-100dpi-transcoded, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libice6-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xfonts-base-transcoded, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xfonts-75dpi, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxrandr2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libsm6, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxtrap6, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libsm-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxxf86dga1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxevie1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xlibosmesa4, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xvfb, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxkbui1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxext6, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdps-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxext6-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxxf86vm1-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxt6, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xlibs-static-pic, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxfont1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxext-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxp-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdps1-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxxf86rush1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xlibmesa3-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxss1-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxtst6, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxxf86misc1-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxt-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxvmc1-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxdamage1-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxkbfile1-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xlibs-pic, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:lbxproxy, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxinerama-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxres1-dbg, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xfs, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:twm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxfixes3-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxxf86misc-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libx11-6-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xlibosmesa4-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxres-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxcomposite1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxaw6-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxxf86misc1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xserver-xorg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxpm4, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxtrap6-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xlibs-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxxf86dga-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxpm4-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxdmcp-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxmuu1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libfs-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxcomposite1-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xfree86-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxp6-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxss1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxaw6, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxkbfile-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxcomposite-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxv1-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xlibmesa-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xserver-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxaw7-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxv1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxfixes-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxi6, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxxf86dga1-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdmx1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xlibosmesa-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdmx-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxrandr2-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxi6-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxau-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xserver-xorg-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:x-window-system-core, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxdamage1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xlibmesa3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xlibmesa-glu-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxdmcp6, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxkbui1-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xlibs-data, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxdmcp6-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xlibs-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libice-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxevie1-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxxf86rush1-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxaw7-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xlibs-static-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xlibmesa-dri, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:x-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xspecs, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdps1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxv-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxau6, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:x-window-system-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxfont1-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xlibmesa-gl, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxss-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xutils, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxmu-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxaw8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xfonts-75dpi-transcoded, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:x-window-system, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxi-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xfonts-cyrillic, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdmx1-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxt6-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxrandr-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxinerama1-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:proxymngr, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxtst6-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxaw8-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libsm6-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxvmc1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libfs6-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxxf86vm1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxfixes3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xfonts-100dpi, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pm-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libx11-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxmu6, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xterm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libx11-6, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xlibs, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxevie-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxkbui-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxaw8-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxinerama1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxmu6-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxpm-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libice6, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xlibmesa-glu-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxvmc-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxp6, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xnest, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xorg-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxres1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xlibmesa-dri-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxkbfile1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xlibmesa-gl-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxtst-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xdmx, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xdm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xprt, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxfont-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxdamage-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxaw6-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xbase-clients, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libfs6, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xfonts-base, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxau6-dbg, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxmuu1-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxtrap-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xlibmesa-gl-dbg

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/12/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-3739, CVE-2006-3740

BID: 19974

USN: 344-1