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Ubuntu 15.04 : linux vulnerability (USN-2719-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 85512

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

Marcelo Ricardo Leitner discovered a race condition in the Linux kernel's SCTP address configuration lists when using Address Configuration Change (ASCONF) options on a socket. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected linux-image-3.19-generic, linux-image-3.19-generic-lpae and / or linux-image-3.19-lowlatency packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/2719-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 85512

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2719-1.nasl

Version: 2.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/18/2015

Updated: 1/19/2021

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: 4.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-3.19-lowlatency, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-3.19-generic, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-3.19-generic-lpae

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/17/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/31/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-3212

USN: 2719-1