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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : APT vulnerability (USN-2370-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 78106

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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-2370-1 advisory.

 Guillem Jover discovered that APT incorrectly created a temporary file when handling the changelog command. A local attacker could use this issue to overwrite arbitrary files. In the default installation of Ubuntu, this should be prevented by the kernel link restrictions.

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 packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2370-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 78106

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2370-1.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/9/2014

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: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.6

Temporal Score: 2.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-7206

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/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: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/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/8/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/15/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-7206

USN: 2370-1