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Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 : emacs21 vulnerability (USN-504-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 28108

Synopsis

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

Description

Hendrik Tews discovered that emacs21 did not correctly handle certain GIF images. By tricking a user into opening a specially crafted GIF, a remote attacker could cause emacs21 to crash, resulting in 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 packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/504-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 28108

File Name: ubuntu_USN-504-1.nasl

Version: 1.16

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: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs21-bin-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs-el, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs21-el, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs21-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs21-nox, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs21, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs-nox

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/28/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-2833

BID: 24570

USN: 504-1