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Ubuntu 12.10 : cinder vulnerability (USN-1731-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 64783

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Synopsis

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

Description

Stuart Stent discovered that Cinder would allow XML entity processing.
A remote unauthenticated attacker could exploit this using the Cinder API to cause a denial of service via resource exhaustion.
(CVE-2013-1664).

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 python-cinder package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1731-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 64783

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1731-1.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/21/2013

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: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-cinder

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/20/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/2/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-1664

USN: 1731-1