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Ubuntu 10.10 / 11.04 : cifs-utils vulnerabilities (USN-1226-2)

low Nessus Plugin ID 56390

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Synopsis

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

Description

Dan Rosenberg discovered that cifs-utils incorrectly handled changes to the mtab file. A local attacker could use this issue to corrupt the mtab file, possibly leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1678)

Jan Lieskovsky discovered that cifs-utils incorrectly filtered certain strings being added to the mtab file. A local attacker could use this issue to corrupt the mtab file, possibly leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2724).

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 smbfs package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1226-2/

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 56390

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1226-2.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/5/2011

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: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:smbfs

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

Patch Publication Date: 10/4/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/9/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1678, CVE-2011-2724

USN: 1226-2