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Ubuntu 9.04 / 9.10 / 10.04 LTS : vte vulnerability (USN-962-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 47742

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Synopsis

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

Description

Janne Snabb discovered that applications using VTE, such as gnome-terminal, did not correctly filter window and icon title request escape codes. If a user were tricked into viewing specially crafted output in their terminal, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary commands with user privileges.

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Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/962-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 47742

File Name: ubuntu_USN-962-1.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/16/2010

Updated: 9/19/2019

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-vte, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvte9, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvte-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvte-doc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-vte-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvte-common

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

Patch Publication Date: 7/15/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/3/2003

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2003-0070, CVE-2010-2713

USN: 962-1