Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 / 5.10 : w3c-libwww vulnerability (USN-220-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 20762

Synopsis

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

Description

Sam Varshavchik discovered several buffer overflows in the HTBoundary_put_block() function. By sending specially crafted HTTP multipart/byteranges MIME messages, a malicious HTTP server could trigger an out of bounds memory access in the libwww library, which causes the program that uses the library to crash.

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Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 20762

File Name: ubuntu_USN-220-1.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/21/2006

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libwww-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libwww-ssl-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libwww-ssl0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libwww0, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.10

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/1/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-3183

CWE: 20

USN: 220-1