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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : file vulnerabilities (USN-2494-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 81178

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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-2494-1 advisory.

 Francisco Alonso discovered that file incorrectly handled certain ELF files. An attacker could use this issue to cause file to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2014-3710)

 Thomas Jarosch discovered that file incorrectly handled certain ELF files. An attacker could use this issue to cause file to hang or crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2014-8116)

 Thomas Jarosch discovered that file incorrectly limited recursion. An attacker could use this issue to cause file to hang or crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2014-8117)

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-2494-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 81178

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2494-1.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/5/2015

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: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-8117

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-3710

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-magic, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagic1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3-magic, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagic-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:file

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/4/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/5/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3710, CVE-2014-8116, CVE-2014-8117

BID: 70807, 71692, 71700

USN: 2494-1