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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 : icu vulnerability (USN-846-1)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 42081
Synopsis
The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.Description
It was discovered that ICU did not properly handle invalid byte sequences during Unicode conversion. If an application using ICU processed crafted data, content security mechanisms could be bypassed, potentially leading to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.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: 42081
File Name: ubuntu_USN-846-1.nasl
Version: 1.15
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Published: 10/9/2009
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: 3.0
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4.3
Temporal Score: 3.2
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libicu-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:lib32icu38, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:lib32icu-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libicu38, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libicu38-dbg, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:icu-doc, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts
Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 10/8/2009
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2009-0153