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Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 / 9.10 : dpkg vulnerability (USN-909-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 45038

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

William Grant discovered that dpkg-source did not safely apply diffs when unpacking source packages. If a user or an automated system were tricked into unpacking a specially crafted source package, a remote attacker could modify files outside the target unpack directory, leading to a denial of service or potentially gaining access to the system.

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 dpkg, dpkg-dev and / or dselect packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/909-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 45038

File Name: ubuntu_USN-909-1.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/11/2010

Updated: 9/19/2019

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: 5.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dselect, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dpkg, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dpkg-dev, 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: 3/11/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/15/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-0396

USN: 909-1