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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 12.10 / 13.04 : nas vulnerabilities (USN-1986-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 70270

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Synopsis

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

Description

Hamid Zamani discovered multiple security issues in the Network Audio System (NAS) server. An attacker could possibly use these issues to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2013-4256, CVE-2013-4257).

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 nas package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1986-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 70270

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1986-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/2/2013

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: 6.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/1/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/9/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4256

BID: 61843, 61848

USN: 1986-1