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Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 7.10 / 8.04 LTS / 8.10 : ekg, libgadu vulnerability (USN-692-1)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 36984
Synopsis
The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.Description
It was discovered that the Gadu library, used by some Instant Messaging clients, did not correctly verify certain packet sizes from the server. If a user connected to a malicious server, clients using Gadu could be made to crash, leading to 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
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 36984
File Name: ubuntu_USN-692-1.nasl
Version: 1.13
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Published: 4/23/2009
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: 3.4
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4.3
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ekg, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgadu3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgadu-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgadu3-dbg, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts
Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l
Patch Publication Date: 12/17/2008
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2008-4776