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Ubuntu 4.10 : lesstif1-1 vulnerabilities (USN-83-2)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 20708

Synopsis

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

Description

USN-83-1 fixed some vulnerabilities in the 'lesstif2' library. The older 'lesstif1' library was also affected, however, a fix was not yet available at that time. This USN fixes the flaws for lesstif1.

Please note that there are no supported applications that use this library, so this only affects you if you use third-party applications which use lesstif1.

For your convenience, here is the relevant part of the USN-83-1 description :

Several vulnerabilities have been found in the XPM image decoding functions of the LessTif library. If an attacker tricked a user into loading a malicious XPM image with an application that uses LessTif, he could exploit this to execute arbitrary code in the context of the user opening the image.

Ubuntu does not contain any server applications using LessTif, so there is no possibility of privilege escalation.

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 20708

File Name: ubuntu_USN-83-2.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/15/2006

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: 6.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:lesstif-bin, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:lesstif-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:lesstif-doc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:lesstif1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:lesstif2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:lesstif2-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/12/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-0914

USN: 83-2