Executive Summary

Summary
Title libmwaw vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-3319-1 First vendor Publication 2017-06-15
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2017-06-15
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 17.04 - Ubuntu 16.10 - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary:

libmwaw could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

Software Description: - libmwaw: import library for some old Mac text documents

Details:

It was discovered that libmwaw incorrectly handled certain malformed document files. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, a remote attacker could cause libmwaw 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 17.04:
libmwaw-0.3-3 0.3.9-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 16.10:
libmwaw-0.3-3 0.3.8-2ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
libmwaw-0.3-3 0.3.7-1ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
libmwaw-0.1-1 0.1.11-1ubuntu1.1

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

References:
https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3319-1
CVE-2017-9433

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libmwaw/0.3.9-1ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libmwaw/0.3.8-2ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libmwaw/0.3.7-1ubuntu2.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libmwaw/0.1.11-1ubuntu1.1

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3319-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

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

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2017-09-18 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2017-1048.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-09-01 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2017-2315-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-07-27 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2017-2d8a1226d1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-07-17 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2017-3229e88ea3.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-07-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2017-807.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-07-10 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2017-1821-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-06-16 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-3319-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-06-12 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3875.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2017-06-17 13:23:43
  • Multiple Updates
2017-06-15 21:22:40
  • First insertion