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Ubuntu 15.04 : cinder vulnerability (USN-2703-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 85251

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

Bastian Blank discovered that Cinder guessed image formats based on untrusted data. An attacker could use this to read arbitrary files from the Cinder host.

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Solution

Update the affected python-cinder package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/2703-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 85251

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2703-1.nasl

Version: 2.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/6/2015

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-cinder

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/5/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/25/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-1851

USN: 2703-1