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Ubuntu 15.10 : miniupnpc vulnerability (USN-2780-2)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 86566

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Synopsis

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

Description

USN-2780-1 fixed a vulnerability in the MiniUPnP library in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 15.04. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 15.10.

Aleksandar Nikolic discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in the XML parser functionality of the MiniUPnP library. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code with privileges of the user running an application that uses the MiniUPnP library.

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Solution

Update the affected libminiupnpc10 package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/2780-2/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 86566

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2780-2.nasl

Version: 2.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/23/2015

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: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libminiupnpc10

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/23/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/2/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-6031

USN: 2780-2