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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.1.12.2005.162.1
Category:Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Title:Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-162-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the 'ekg' package(s) announced via the USN-162-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the 'ekg' package(s) announced via the USN-162-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
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. (CAN-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. (CAN-2005-1851)

Marcin Slusarz 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. (CAN-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.
(CAN-2005-1916)

Grzegorz Jaskiewicz 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. (CAN-2005-2369)

Szymon Zygmunt and Michal 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.
(CAN-2005-2370)

Marcin Slusarz discovered that the Gadu library did not properly
handle endianness conversion in some cases. This caused invalid
behavior on big endian architectures. The only affected supported
architecture is powerpc. (CAN-2005-2448)

Affected Software/OS:
'ekg' package(s) on Ubuntu 5.04.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
10.0

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-1850
Bugtraq: 20050721 Multiple vulnerabilities in libgadu and ekg package (Google Search)
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112198499417250&w=2
Debian Security Information: DSA-760 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-760
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-1851
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-1852
BugTraq ID: 14345
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14345
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
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9532
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-639.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/16140
http://secunia.com/advisories/16155
http://secunia.com/advisories/16211
http://secunia.com/advisories/16242
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2005:019 (Google Search)
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_19_sr.html
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-1916
Bugtraq: 20050705 ekg insecure temporary file creation and arbitrary code execution (Google Search)
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112060146011122&w=2
http://www.zataz.net/adviso/ekg-06062005.txt
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-2369
BugTraq ID: 14415
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14415
Debian Security Information: DSA-813 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-813
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10281
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-2370
BugTraq ID: 24600
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24600
Debian Security Information: DSA-1318 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1318
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/426078/100/0/threaded
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10456
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-627.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/16265
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-2448
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11263
http://secunia.com/advisories/16363
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