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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 10.10 / 11.04 / 11.10 : icu vulnerability (USN-1348-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 57706

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Synopsis

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

Description

It was discovered that ICU did not properly handle invalid locale data during Unicode conversion. If an application using ICU processed crafted data, an attacker could cause it to crash or potentially execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program.

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Solution

Update the affected libicu42 and / or libicu44 packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1348-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 57706

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1348-1.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/27/2012

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: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libicu42, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libicu44, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.10

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/26/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/21/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-4599

BID: 51006

USN: 1348-1