Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 10.04 LTS / 10.10 : nbd vulnerability (USN-1155-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 55282

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

It was discovered that NBD incorrectly handled certain long requests.
A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause NBD to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

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 nbd-server package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1155-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 55282

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1155-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/21/2011

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: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nbd-server, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-: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: 6/21/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/22/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-0530

BID: 46572

USN: 1155-1