Ubuntu 5.04 : libksba vulnerability (USN-365-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 27945

Synopsis

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

Description

A parsing failure was discovered in the handling of X.509 certificates that contained extra trailing data. Malformed or malicious certificates could cause services using libksba to crash, potentially creating a 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 libksba-dev and / or libksba8 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 27945

File Name: ubuntu_USN-365-1.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks

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: Low

Score: 3.6

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:libksba-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libksba8, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04

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

Patch Publication Date: 10/16/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/27/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-5111

USN: 365-1

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