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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 10.04 LTS / 10.10 / 11.04 : dbus vulnerability (USN-1176-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 55700

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Synopsis

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

Description

It was discovered that DBus did not properly validate the byte order of messages under certain circumstances. An attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash or potentially obtain access to sensitive information.

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Solution

Update the affected dbus package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1176-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 55700

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1176-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/27/2011

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: High

Score: 7.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dbus, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.04, 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: 7/26/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/22/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-2200

BID: 48216

USN: 1176-1