Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : openssh vulnerabilities (USN-355-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 27935

Synopsis

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

Description

Tavis Ormandy discovered that the SSH daemon did not properly handle authentication packets with duplicated blocks. By sending specially crafted packets, a remote attacker could exploit this to cause the ssh daemon to drain all available CPU resources until the login grace time expired. (CVE-2006-4924)

Mark Dowd discovered a race condition in the server's signal handling.
A remote attacker could exploit this to crash the server.
(CVE-2006-5051).

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/355-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 27935

File Name: ubuntu_USN-355-1.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/10/2007

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 7.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openssh-client, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openssh-server, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ssh, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ssh-askpass-gnome, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts

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: 10/2/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-4924, CVE-2006-5051, CVE-2008-4109

BID: 20216

CWE: 264, 362, 399

USN: 355-1