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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 12.10 / 13.10 : munin vulnerabilities (USN-2090-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 72164

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Synopsis

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

Description

Christoph Biedl discovered that Munin incorrectly handled certain multigraph data. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Munin to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2013-6048)

Christoph Biedl discovered that Munin incorrectly handled certain multigraph service names. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Munin to stop data collection, resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2013-6359).

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 munin package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/2090-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 72164

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2090-1.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/28/2014

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:munin

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/27/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/13/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-6048, CVE-2013-6359

BID: 64188, 64189

USN: 2090-1