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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 10.10 / 11.04 : python3.1, python3.2 vulnerabilities (USN-1314-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 57345

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Synopsis

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

Description

Giampaolo Rodola discovered that the smtpd module in Python 3 did not properly handle certain error conditions. A remote attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service via daemon outage. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. (CVE-2010-3493)

Niels Heinen discovered that the urllib module in Python 3 would process Location headers that specify a file:// URL. A remote attacker could use this to obtain sensitive information or cause a denial of service via resource consumption. (CVE-2011-1521).

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 python3.1-minimal and / or python3.2-minimal packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1314-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 57345

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1314-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/20/2011

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: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3.2-minimal, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3.1-minimal, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.04

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/19/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/19/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-3493, CVE-2011-1521

BID: 44533, 47024

USN: 1314-1