Ubuntu 9.04 : mpfr vulnerability (USN-772-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 38715

Synopsis

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

Description

It was discovered that MPFR improperly handled string lengths in its print routines. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing specially crafted data with applications linked against MPFR, an attacker could cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code with privileges of the user invoking the program.

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 packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/772-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 38715

File Name: ubuntu_USN-772-1.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/8/2009

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: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:lib64mpfr1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmpfr-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmpfr-doc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmpfr1ldbl, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.04

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/7/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-0757

CWE: 119

USN: 772-1