Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.55020
Category:	Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Title:	Ubuntu USN-162-1 (ekg)
Summary:	Ubuntu USN-162-1 (ekg)
Description:	The remote host is missing an update to ekg announced via advisory USN-162-1. A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog) The following packages are affected: ekg libgadu3 Marcin Owsiany and Wojtek Kaniewski discovered that some contributed scripts (contrib/ekgh, contrib/ekgnv.sh, and contrib/getekg.sh) in the ekg package created temporary files in an insecure way, which allowed exploitation of a race condition to create or overwrite files with the privileges of the user invoking the script. (CVE-2005-1850) Marcin Owsiany and Wojtek Kaniewski discovered a shell command injection vulnerability in a contributed utility (contrib/scripts/ekgbot-pre1.py). By sending specially crafted content to the bot, an attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running ekgbot. (CVE-2005-1851) Marcin Ślusarz discovered an integer overflow in the Gadu library. By sending a specially crafted incoming message, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the application using libgadu. (CVE-2005-1852) Eric Romang discovered that another contributed script (contrib/scripts/linki.py) created temporary files in an insecure way, which allowed exploitation of a race condition to create or overwrite files with the privileges of the user invoking the script. (CVE-2005-1916) Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz discovered several integer overflows in the Gadu library. A remote attacker could exploit this to crash the Gadu client application or even execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user by sending specially crafted messages. (CVE-2005-2369) Szymon Zygmunt and Michał Bartoszkiewicz discovered a memory alignment error in the Gadu library. By sending specially crafted messages, a remote attacker could crash the application using the library. (CVE-2005-2370) Marcin Ślusarz discovered that the Gadu library did not properly handle endianess conversion in some cases. This caused invalid behavior on big endian architectures. The only affected supported architecture is powerpc. (CVE-2005-2448) Solution: The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to version 1:1.5-4ubuntu1.2. In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes. If you use the Instant Messaging application Kopete, you need to restart it after the upgrade since it uses the libgadu3 library package. http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=USN-162-1 Risk factor : Critical
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-1850 Debian Security Information: DSA-760 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-760 Bugtraq: 20050721 Multiple vulnerabilities in libgadu and ekg package (Google Search) http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=112198499417250&w=2 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-1851 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-1852 http://lwn.net/Articles/144724/ http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200507-23.xml http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200507-26.xml http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-639.html SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2005:019 (Google Search) http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_19_sr.html BugTraq ID: 14345 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14345 http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9532 http://secunia.com/advisories/16140 http://secunia.com/advisories/16155 http://secunia.com/advisories/16211 http://secunia.com/advisories/16242 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-1916 Bugtraq: 20050705 ekg insecure temporary file creation and arbitrary code execution (Google Search) http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=112060146011122&w=2 http://www.zataz.net/adviso/ekg-06062005.txt Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-2369 Debian Security Information: DSA-813 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-813 BugTraq ID: 14415 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14415 http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10281 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-2370 Debian Security Information: DSA-1318 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1318 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/426078/100/0/threaded http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-627.html BugTraq ID: 24600 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24600 http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10456 http://secunia.com/advisories/16265 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-2448 http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11263 http://secunia.com/advisories/16363
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