Executive Summary

Summary
Title AdvanceCOMP vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-3570-1 First vendor Publication 2018-02-14
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2018-02-14
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:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 6.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

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

- Ubuntu 17.10 - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary:

AdvanceCOMP could be made to crash or run programs if it opened a specially crafted file.

Software Description: - advancecomp: collection of recompression utilities

Details:

Joonun Jang discovered that AdvanceCOMP incorrectly handled certain malformed zip files. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted zip file, a remote attacker could cause AdvanceCOMP 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 17.10:
advancecomp 2.0-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
advancecomp 1.20-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
advancecomp 1.18-1ubuntu0.1

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

References:
https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3570-1
CVE-2018-1056

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/advancecomp/2.0-1ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/advancecomp/1.20-1ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/advancecomp/1.18-1ubuntu0.1

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3570-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1
Os 3
Os 3

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2019-01-03 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-b2a2c5c0cf.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-03-16 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-af30668257.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-02-14 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1281.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2018-09-21 21:22:10
  • Multiple Updates
2018-07-29 09:21:23
  • Multiple Updates
2018-02-14 17:19:26
  • First insertion