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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : elfutils vulnerability (USN-2482-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 80945

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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-2482-1 advisory.

 Alexander Cherepanov discovered that libelf1 incorrectly handled certain filesystem paths while extracting ar archives. An attacker could use this flaw to perform a directory traversal attack on the root directory if the process extracting the ar archive has write access to the root directory.

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-2482-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 80945

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2482-1.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/23/2015

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: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-9447

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/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:libelf-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libasm1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdw1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libasm-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdw-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:elfutils, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libelf1

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/22/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/2/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-9447

BID: 71804

USN: 2482-1