Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 12.10 / 13.04 : vino vulnerability (USN-1980-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 70255

Synopsis

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

Description

Jonathan Claudius discovered that Vino incorrectly handled closing invalid connections. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Vino to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service.

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 vino package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1980-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 70255

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1980-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/1/2013

Updated: 9/19/2019

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:vino, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.04

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/30/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/1/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-5745

BID: 62443

USN: 1980-1