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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 12.10 / 13.04 : mesa, mesa-lts-quantal vulnerabilities (USN-1888-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 66961

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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 memory calculations. An attacker could use this flaw to cause an application to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2013-1872)

Ilja van Sprundel discovered that Mesa incorrectly handled certain memory calculations. An attacker could use this flaw to cause an application to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2013-1993).

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 packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1888-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 66961

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1888-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/21/2013

Updated: 9/19/2019

Supported Sensors: Agentless 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: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libegl1-mesa, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libegl1-mesa-lts-quantal, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgbm1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgbm1-lts-quantal, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgl1-mesa-dri, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgl1-mesa-dri-lts-quantal, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgl1-mesa-glx, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgl1-mesa-glx-lts-quantal, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgl1-mesa-swx11, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libglapi-mesa, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libglapi-mesa-lts-quantal, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgles1-mesa, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgles1-mesa-lts-quantal, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgles2-mesa, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgles2-mesa-lts-quantal, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libglu1-mesa, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libopenvg1-mesa, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libopenvg1-mesa-lts-quantal, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libosmesa6, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxatracker1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxatracker1-lts-quantal, 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/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/20/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/15/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-1872, CVE-2013-1993

BID: 60149, 60285

USN: 1888-1