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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 11.10 / 12.04 LTS : libproxy vulnerabilities (USN-1629-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 62899

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Synopsis

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

Description

Tomas Mraz discovered that libproxy incorrectly handled certain PAC files. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause libproxy to crash, or to possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2012-4504, CVE-2012-4505).

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 libproxy0 and / or libproxy1 packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1629-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 62899

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1629-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/13/2012

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: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libproxy0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libproxy1, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts, 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: 11/12/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/11/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-4504, CVE-2012-4505

BID: 55909, 55910

USN: 1629-1