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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 9.10 / 10.04 LTS / 10.10 : openssl vulnerability (USN-1018-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 50649

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Synopsis

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

Description

Rob Hulswit discovered a race condition in the OpenSSL TLS server extension parsing code when used within a threaded server. A remote attacker could trigger this flaw to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with application privileges.
(CVE-2010-3864).

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/1018-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 50649

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1018-1.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/18/2010

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: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.6

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libssl0.9.8-dbg, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libssl0.9.8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openssl-doc, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openssl, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libssl-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.10, 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: 11/17/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/17/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-3864

BID: 44884

USN: 1018-1