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Ubuntu 9.04 : smarty vulnerability (USN-791-3)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 39518

Synopsis

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

Description

It was discovered that Smarty did not correctly filter certain math inputs. A remote attacker using Smarty via a web service could exploit this to execute subsets of shell commands as the web server user.

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Solution

Update the affected smarty package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/791-3/

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 39518

File Name: ubuntu_USN-791-3.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/25/2009

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: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:smarty, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.04

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/24/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-1669

BID: 34918

CWE: 20

USN: 791-3