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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : MiniUPnPc vulnerability (USN-2280-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 76560

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2280-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that MiniUPnPc incorrectly handled certain buffer lengths. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause applications using MiniUPnPc to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected libminiupnpc-dev, libminiupnpc8 and / or miniupnpc packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2280-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 76560

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2280-1.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/17/2014

Updated: 8/27/2024

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: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-3985

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:miniupnpc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libminiupnpc-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libminiupnpc8

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/16/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/11/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3985

BID: 67152

USN: 2280-1