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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : mesa vulnerability (USN-1623-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 62817

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Synopsis

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

Description

It was discovered that Mesa incorrectly handled certain arrays. An attacker could use this issue to cause Mesa to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

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Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1623-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 62817

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1623-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/6/2012

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: 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: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libopenvg1-mesa, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgles1-mesa, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgl1-mesa-glx, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libglapi-mesa, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgl1-mesa-dri, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgles2-mesa, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libglu1-mesa, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libegl1-mesa, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libosmesa6, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxatracker1

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/5/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/22/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-2864

BID: 55135

USN: 1623-1