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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 12.10 / 13.04 : swift vulnerabilities (USN-1887-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 66960

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Synopsis

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

Description

Sebastian Krahmer discovered that Swift used the loads function in the pickle Python module when it was configured to use memcached. A remote attacker on the same network as memcached could exploit this to execute arbitrary code. This update adds a new memcache_serialization_support option to support secure json serialization. For details on this new option, please see /usr/share/doc/swift-proxy/memcache.conf-sample. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. (CVE-2012-4406)

Alex Gaynor discovered that Swift did not safely generate XML. An attacker could potentially craft an account name to generate arbitrary XML responses to trigger vulnerabilities in software parsing Swift's XML. (CVE-2013-2161).

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-swift package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1887-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 66960

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1887-1.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/21/2013

Updated: 6/26/2020

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-swift, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.04

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/19/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/22/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-4406, CVE-2013-2161

BID: 55420, 60543

USN: 1887-1