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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : serf vulnerability (USN-2315-1)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 77218
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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-2315-1 advisory.Ben Reser discovered that serf did not correctly handle SSL certificates with NUL bytes in the CommonName or SubjectAltNames fields. A remote attacker could exploit this to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack to view sensitive information or alter encrypted communications.
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 libserf-1-1 and / or libserf-dev packages.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 77218
File Name: ubuntu_USN-2315-1.nasl
Version: 1.12
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Published: 8/15/2014
Updated: 8/28/2024
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 3.6
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4
Temporal Score: 3
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-3504
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5.9
Temporal Score: 5.2
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libserf-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libserf-1-1
Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 8/14/2014
Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/19/2014
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2014-3504
BID: 69238
USN: 2315-1