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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 9.04 / 9.10 / 10.04 LTS : texlive-bin vulnerabilities (USN-937-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 46254

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Synopsis

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

Description

It was discovered that TeX Live incorrectly handled certain long .bib bibliography files. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted bib file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash. This issue only affected Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, 9.04 and 9.10. (CVE-2009-1284)

Marc Schoenefeld, Karel Srot and Ludwig Nussel discovered that TeX Live incorrectly handled certain malformed dvi files. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted dvi file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2010-0739, CVE-2010-1440)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that TeX Live incorrectly handled certain malformed dvi files. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted dvi file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program.
(CVE-2010-0827).

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

https://usn.ubuntu.com/937-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 46254

File Name: ubuntu_USN-937-1.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/7/2010

Updated: 9/19/2019

Supported Sensors: Agentless 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: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libkpathsea-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libkpathsea4, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libkpathsea5, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:texlive-base-bin, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:texlive-base-bin-doc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:texlive-binaries, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:texlive-extra-utils, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:texlive-font-utils, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:texlive-lang-indic, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:texlive-metapost, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:texlive-metapost-doc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:texlive-music, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:texlive-omega, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:texlive-xetex, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.10

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: 5/6/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/9/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-1284, CVE-2010-0739, CVE-2010-0827, CVE-2010-1440

BID: 34332, 39500

CWE: 119

USN: 937-1