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Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 / 7.10 : e2fsprogs vulnerability (USN-555-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 29305

Synopsis

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

Description

Rafal Wojtczuk discovered multiple integer overflows in e2fsprogs. If a user or automated system were tricked into fscking a malicious ext2/ext3 filesystem, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges.

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Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/555-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 29305

File Name: ubuntu_USN-555-1.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/11/2007

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: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ss-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:e2fslibs-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:uuid-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libss2, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libblkid1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:comerr-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libuuid1, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcomerr2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:e2fsprogs, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libblkid-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:e2fslibs, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:e2fsck-static

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/7/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-5497

BID: 26772

CWE: 189

USN: 555-1