Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : linux-source-2.6.10/-2.6.12/-2.6.15 vulnerabilities (USN-347-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 27927

Synopsis

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

Description

Sridhar Samudrala discovered a local Denial of Service vulnerability in the handling of SCTP sockets. By opening such a socket with a special SO_LINGER value, a local attacker could exploit this to crash the kernel. (CVE-2006-4535)

Kirill Korotaev discovered that the ELF loader on the ia64 and sparc platforms did not sufficiently verify the memory layout. By attempting to execute a specially crafted executable, a local user could exploit this to crash the kernel. (CVE-2006-4538).

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/347-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 27927

File Name: ubuntu_USN-347-1.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: local

Agent: unix

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: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:fglrx-kernel-source, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-386, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-686, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-686-smp, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-amd64-generic, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-amd64-k8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-amd64-k8-smp, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-amd64-server, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-amd64-xeon, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-doc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-amd64-xeon, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-server, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-patch-ubuntu-2.6.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-patch-ubuntu-2.6.12, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-restricted-modules-2.6-386, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-restricted-modules-2.6-686, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-restricted-modules-2.6-amd64-generic, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-restricted-modules-2.6-amd64-k8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-restricted-modules-2.6-amd64-xeon, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-restricted-modules-386, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-restricted-modules-686, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-restricted-modules-amd64-generic, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-restricted-modules-amd64-k8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-restricted-modules-amd64-xeon, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-restricted-modules-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:avm-fritz-firmware, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:avm-fritz-firmware-2.6.15-27, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:avm-fritz-kernel-source, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:fglrx-control, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-doc-2.6.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-doc-2.6.12, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-headers-2.6, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-headers-2.6-386, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-headers-2.6-686, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-headers-2.6-686-smp, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-headers-2.6-amd64-generic, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-headers-2.6-amd64-k8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-headers-2.6-amd64-k8-smp, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-headers-2.6-amd64-server, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-headers-2.6-amd64-xeon, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-headers-2.6-server, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-headers-386, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-headers-686, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-headers-amd64-generic, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-headers-amd64-k8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-headers-amd64-server, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-headers-amd64-xeon, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-headers-server, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-2.6-386, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-2.6-686, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-2.6-686-smp, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-2.6-amd64-generic, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-2.6-amd64-k8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-2.6-amd64-k8-smp, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-2.6-amd64-server, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-2.6-amd64-xeon, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-2.6-server, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-386, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-686, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-amd64-generic, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-amd64-k8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-amd64-server, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nvidia-glx, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nvidia-glx-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nvidia-glx-legacy, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nvidia-glx-legacy-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nvidia-kernel-source, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nvidia-legacy-kernel-source, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-server, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-source, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-source-2.6.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-source-2.6.12, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-source-2.6.15, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-tree-2.6.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-tree-2.6.12, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:vmware-player-kernel-modules, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:vmware-player-kernel-modules-2.6.15-27, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:vmware-player-kernel-source, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xorg-driver-fglrx, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xorg-driver-fglrx-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/18/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/5/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-4535, CVE-2006-4538

BID: 19702

USN: 347-1