Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : raptor2 vulnerability (USN-1901-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 67206

Synopsis

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

Description

Timothy D. Morgan discovered that Raptor would unconditionally load XML external entities. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted document in an application linked against Raptor, an attacker could possibly obtain access to arbitrary files on the user's system or potentially execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program.

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 libraptor2-0 package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1901-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 67206

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1901-1.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/9/2013

Updated: 9/19/2019

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libraptor2-0, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/8/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/16/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-0037

BID: 52681

USN: 1901-1