Executive Summary



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Summary
Title libmspack vulnerabilities
Informations
Name USN-3814-1 First vendor Publication 2018-11-12
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2018-11-12
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:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 4.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 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 18.10 - Ubuntu 18.04 LTS - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Summary:

Several security issues were fixed in libmspack.

Software Description: - libmspack: library for Microsoft compression formats

Details:

It was discovered libmspack incorrectly handled certain malformed CAB files. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause libmspack to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2018-18584, CVE-2018-18585)

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 18.10:
libmspack0 0.7-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
libmspack0 0.6-3ubuntu0.2

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
libmspack0 0.5-1ubuntu0.16.04.3

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

References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3814-1
CVE-2018-18584, CVE-2018-18585

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libmspack/0.7-1ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libmspack/0.6-3ubuntu0.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libmspack/0.5-1ubuntu0.16.04.3

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3814-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
50 % CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write (CWE/SANS Top 25)
50 % CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 11
Application 5
Application 6
Application 1
Os 5
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 4

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2019-12-10 Libmspack cabd_sys_read_block off-by-one heap overflow attempt
RuleID : 52133 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-OTHER
2019-12-10 Libmspack cabd_sys_read_block off-by-one heap overflow attempt
RuleID : 52132 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-OTHER

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2019-01-03 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.
File : fedora_2018-a5953af115.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2019-01-03 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.
File : fedora_2018-cb337fb199.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-11-19 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.
File : fedora_2018-c73d257297.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-10-29 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1555.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2019-01-15 21:21:51
  • Multiple Updates
2018-11-13 17:21:30
  • Multiple Updates
2018-11-12 13:18:37
  • First insertion