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Ubuntu 7.10 / 8.04 LTS : yelp vulnerability (USN-638-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 34059

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

Aaron Grattafiori discovered that the Gnome Help Viewer did not handle format strings correctly when displaying certain error messages. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted URI, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user 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 yelp package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/638-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 34059

File Name: ubuntu_USN-638-1.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/28/2008

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: Critical

Base Score: 10

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:yelp

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/27/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-3533

CWE: 134

USN: 638-1