Ubuntu 7.04 / 7.10 / 8.04 LTS : kdelibs vulnerability (USN-608-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 32188

Synopsis

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

Description

It was discovered that start_kdeinit in KDE 3 did not properly sanitize its input. A local attacker could exploit this to send signals to other processes and cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2008-1671).

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/608-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 32188

File Name: ubuntu_USN-608-1.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/9/2008

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: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs-data, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs4-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs4-doc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs4c2a, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts

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

Patch Publication Date: 5/6/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-1671

CWE: 16

USN: 608-1