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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : APT vulnerabilities (USN-2348-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 77726

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2348-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that APT did not re-verify downloaded files when the If-Modified-Since wasn't met.
 (CVE-2014-0487)

 It was discovered that APT did not invalidate repository data when it switched from an unauthenticated to an authenticated state. (CVE-2014-0488)

 It was discovered that the APT Acquire::GzipIndexes option caused APT to skip checksum validation. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and was not enabled by default.
 (CVE-2014-0489)

 It was discovered that APT did not correctly validate signatures when manually downloading packages using the download command. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. (CVE-2014-0490)

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

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2348-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 77726

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2348-1.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/17/2014

Updated: 8/27/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-0490

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-0488

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libapt-pkg4.12, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libapt-inst1.5, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:apt-transport-https, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libapt-pkg-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:apt-utils, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:apt

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/16/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/3/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-0487, CVE-2014-0488, CVE-2014-0489, CVE-2014-0490

USN: 2348-1