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Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 7.04 / 7.10 / 8.04 LTS : libxslt vulnerabilities (USN-633-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 33808

Synopsis

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

Description

It was discovered that long transformation matches in libxslt could overflow. If an attacker were able to make an application linked against libxslt process malicious XSL style sheet input, they could execute arbitrary code with user privileges or cause the application to crash, leading to a denial of serivce. (CVE-2008-1767)

Chris Evans discovered that the RC4 processing code in libxslt did not correctly handle corrupted key information. If a remote attacker were able to make an application linked against libxslt process malicious XML input, they could crash the application, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2008-2935).

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/633-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 33808

File Name: ubuntu_USN-633-1.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/4/2008

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxslt1.1, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxslt1-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-libxslt1-dbg, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-libxslt1, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python2.4-libxslt1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxslt1-dbg, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xsltproc

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/1/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-1767, CVE-2008-2935

BID: 29312

CWE: 119

USN: 633-1