Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : APT vulnerabilities (USN-2348-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 77726

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

It was discovered that APT did not re-verify downloaded files when the If-Modified-Since wasn't met. (CVE-2014-0487)

It was discovered that APT did not invalidate repository data when it switched from an unauthenticated to an authenticated state.
(CVE-2014-0488)

It was discovered that the APT Acquire::GzipIndexes option caused APT to skip checksum validation. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and was not enabled by default.
(CVE-2014-0489)

It was discovered that APT did not correctly validate signatures when downloading source packages using the download command. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2014-0490).

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://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2348-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 77726

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2348-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/17/2014

Updated: 10/23/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-0490

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-0488

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:apt, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:apt-transport-https, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:apt-utils, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libapt-inst1.5, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libapt-pkg-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libapt-pkg4.12, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/16/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/3/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-0487, CVE-2014-0488, CVE-2014-0489, CVE-2014-0490

USN: 2348-1