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Ubuntu 5.10 / 6.06 LTS / 6.10 : libgsf vulnerability (USN-391-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 27976

Synopsis

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

Description

A heap overflow was discovered in the OLE processing code in libgsf.
If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted OLE document, an attacker could execute arbitrary code with the user's 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/391-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 27976

File Name: ubuntu_USN-391-1.nasl

Version: 1.18

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: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgsf-1-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgsf-gnome-1-113, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgsf-1-113, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgsf-1-114-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgsf-gnome-1-113-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgsf-1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgsf-bin, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgsf-1-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgsf-gnome-1-114, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgsf-gnome-1-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgsf-gnome-1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgsf-gnome-1-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgsf-gnome-1-114-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgsf-1-113-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgsf-1-114, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgsf-1-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: 12/4/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-4514

BID: 21358

USN: 391-1