Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : e2fsprogs vulnerabilities (USN-2507-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 81482

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Jose Duart discovered that e2fsprogs incorrectly handled invalid block group descriptor data. A local attacker could use this issue with a crafted filesystem image to possibly execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2015-0247, CVE-2015-1572).

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://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2507-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 81482

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2507-1.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/24/2015

Updated: 10/20/2023

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: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-1572

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:e2fsprogs, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:e2fsprogs-udeb, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcomerr2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libss2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ss-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:comerr-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:e2fsck-static, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:e2fslibs, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:e2fslibs-dev

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/23/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/17/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-0247, CVE-2015-1572

BID: 72520, 72709

USN: 2507-1