Executive Summary

Summary
Title xmlrpc-epi vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-3059-1 First vendor Publication 2016-08-10
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2016-08-10
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Summary:

xmlrpc-epi could be made to crash or run programs if it processed specially crafted data.

Software Description: - xmlrpc-epi: a XML-RPC request library

Details:

It was discovered that xmlrpc-epi incorrectly handled lengths in the simplestring_addn function. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause applications using xmlrpc-epi such as PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
libxmlrpc-epi0 0.54.2-1.1ubuntu0.1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3059-1
CVE-2016-6296

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xmlrpc-epi/0.54.2-1.1ubuntu0.1

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3059-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 630

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2017-05-02 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : EulerOS_SA-2017-1068.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-05-02 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : EulerOS_SA-2017-1067.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-12-01 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201611-22.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-10-05 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2016-1156.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-09-23 Name : The remote host is missing a macOS update that fixes multiple security vulner...
File : macos_10_12.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-09-19 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2016-2328-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-09-19 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-628.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-09-08 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2016-2210-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-09-02 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2016-2080-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-08-16 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2016-985.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-08-11 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-3059-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-08-03 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-3045-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-08-01 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-569.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-07-27 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_b6402385533b11e6a7bd14dae9d210b8.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-07-27 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3631.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-07-26 Name : The version of PHP running on the remote web server is affected by multiple v...
File : php_5_5_38.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-07-26 Name : The version of PHP running on the remote web server is affected by multiple v...
File : php_7_0_9.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-07-26 Name : The version of PHP running on the remote web server is affected by multiple v...
File : php_5_6_24.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2016-08-12 13:23:55
  • Multiple Updates
2016-08-10 21:24:06
  • First insertion