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Ubuntu 9.04 : mpfr vulnerability (USN-772-1)
high Nessus Plugin ID 38715
Synopsis
The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.Description
It was discovered that MPFR improperly handled string lengths in its print routines. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing specially crafted data with applications linked against MPFR, an attacker could cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code with privileges of the user invoking the program.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: High
ID: 38715
File Name: ubuntu_USN-772-1.nasl
Version: 1.15
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Published: 5/8/2009
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: Medium
Score: 5.9
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.5
Temporal Score: 5.5
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmpfr-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmpfr1ldbl, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmpfr-doc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:lib64mpfr1
Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 5/7/2009
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2009-0757