Ubuntu 7.10 / 8.04 LTS / 8.10 : glib2.0 vulnerability (USN-738-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 36361

Synopsis

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

Description

Diego Petteno discovered that the Base64 encoding functions in GLib did not properly handle large strings. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a crafted Base64 string, an attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program.

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Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/738-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 36361

File Name: ubuntu_USN-738-1.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/23/2009

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: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgio-fam, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libglib2.0-0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libglib2.0-0-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libglib2.0-data, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libglib2.0-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libglib2.0-doc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libglib2.0-udeb, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.10

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/16/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-4316

BID: 34100

CWE: 189

USN: 738-1