Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 / 7.10 : tetex-bin, texlive-bin vulnerabilities (USN-554-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 29239

Synopsis

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

Description

Bastien Roucaries discovered that dvips as included in tetex-bin and texlive-bin did not properly perform bounds checking. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted dvi file, dvips could be made to crash and execute code as the user invoking the program. (CVE-2007-5935)

Joachim Schrod discovered that the dviljk utilities created temporary files in an insecure way. Local users could exploit a race condition to create or overwrite files with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2007-5936)

Joachim Schrod discovered that the dviljk utilities did not perform bounds checking in many instances. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted dvi file, the dviljk utilities could be made to crash and execute code as the user invoking the program. (CVE-2007-5937).

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/554-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 29239

File Name: ubuntu_USN-554-1.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/7/2007

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: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:texlive-music, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:texlive-font-utils, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libkpathsea-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:texlive-xetex, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:texlive-omega, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libkpathsea4, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:texlive-extra-utils, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libkpathsea4-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:texlive-lang-indic, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:texlive-base-bin, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:texlive-metapost, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:tetex-bin

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/6/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-5935, CVE-2007-5936, CVE-2007-5937

CWE: 119, 264

USN: 554-1