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Test ID: | 1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.66788 |
Category: | Ubuntu Local Security Checks |
Title: | Ubuntu USN-891-1 (lintian) |
Summary: | NOSUMMARY |
Description: | Description: The remote host is missing an update to lintian announced via advisory USN-891-1. Details follow: It was discovered that lintian did not correctly validate certain filenames when processing input. If a user or an automated system were tricked into running lintian on a specially crafted set of files, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges. Solution: The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS: lintian 1.23.16ubuntu2.1 Ubuntu 8.04 LTS: lintian 1.23.46ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 8.10: lintian 1.24.3ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 9.04: lintian 2.2.5ubuntu1.1 Ubuntu 9.10: lintian 2.2.17ubuntu1.1 In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes. http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=USN-891-1 Risk factor : High CVSS Score: 7.5 |
Cross-Ref: |
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2009-4013 BugTraq ID: 37975 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37975 Debian Security Information: DSA-1979 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-1979 http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/lintian/news/20100128T015554Z.html http://secunia.com/advisories/38375 http://secunia.com/advisories/38379 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-891-1 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2009-4014 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2009-4015 |
Copyright | Copyright (c) 2010 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com |
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