Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 10.10 : webkit vulnerabilities (USN-1195-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 55967

Synopsis

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

Description

A large number of security issues were discovered in the WebKit browser and JavaScript engines. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website, a remote attacker could exploit a variety of issues related to web browser security, including cross-site scripting attacks, denial of service attacks, and arbitrary code execution.

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 libwebkit-1.0-2 package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1195-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 55967

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1195-1.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/24/2011

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: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libwebkit-1.0-2, 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: 8/23/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/6/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-1824, CVE-2010-2646, CVE-2010-2651, CVE-2010-2900, CVE-2010-2901, CVE-2010-3120, CVE-2010-3254, CVE-2010-3812, CVE-2010-3813, CVE-2010-4040, CVE-2010-4042, CVE-2010-4197, CVE-2010-4198, CVE-2010-4199, CVE-2010-4204, CVE-2010-4206, CVE-2010-4492, CVE-2010-4493, CVE-2010-4577, CVE-2010-4578, CVE-2011-0482, CVE-2011-0778

BID: 41976, 44241, 44646, 44954, 44960, 45170, 45390, 45718, 45719, 45720, 45721, 45722, 45788, 46144, 46677

USN: 1195-1