Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 / 7.10 : python2.4/2.5 vulnerabilities (USN-585-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 31461

Synopsis

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

Description

Piotr Engelking discovered that strxfrm in Python was not correctly calculating the size of the destination buffer. This could lead to small information leaks, which might be used by attackers to gain additional knowledge about the state of a running Python script.
(CVE-2007-2052)

A flaw was discovered in the Python imageop module. If a script using the module could be tricked into processing a specially crafted set of arguments, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code, or cause the application to crash. (CVE-2007-4965).

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/585-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 31461

File Name: ubuntu_USN-585-1.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/13/2008

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: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:idle-python2.4, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:idle-python2.5, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python2.4, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python2.4-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python2.4-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python2.4-doc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python2.4-examples, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python2.4-gdbm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python2.4-minimal, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python2.4-tk, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python2.5, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python2.5-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python2.5-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python2.5-doc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python2.5-examples, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python2.5-minimal

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/10/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-2052, CVE-2007-4965

BID: 25696

CWE: 189

USN: 585-1