Executive Summary

Summary
Title UW IMAP vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-4160-1 First vendor Publication 2019-10-21
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2019-10-21
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:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 8.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 6.8 Authentication Requires single instance
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Detail

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

- Ubuntu 19.04 - Ubuntu 18.04 LTS - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Summary:

UW IMAP could be made to execute programs if it received specially crafted input.

Software Description: - uw-imap: c-client library for mail protocols - library files

Details:

It was discovered that UW IMAP incorrectly handled inputs. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary OS commands.

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 19.04:
libc-client2007e 8:2007f~dfsg-5ubuntu0.19.04.2
mlock 8:2007f~dfsg-5ubuntu0.19.04.2
uw-mailutils 8:2007f~dfsg-5ubuntu0.19.04.2

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
libc-client2007e 8:2007f~dfsg-5ubuntu0.18.04.2
mlock 8:2007f~dfsg-5ubuntu0.18.04.2
uw-mailutils 8:2007f~dfsg-5ubuntu0.18.04.2

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
libc-client2007e 8:2007f~dfsg-4+deb8u1build0.16.04.1
mlock 8:2007f~dfsg-4+deb8u1build0.16.04.1
uw-mailutils 8:2007f~dfsg-4+deb8u1build0.16.04.1

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

References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4160-1
CVE-2018-19518

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/uw-imap/8:2007f~dfsg-5ubuntu0.19.04.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/uw-imap/8:2007f~dfsg-5ubuntu0.18.04.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/uw-imap/8:2007f~dfsg-4+deb8u1build0.16.04.1

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-4160-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-88 Argument Injection or Modification

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 856
Application 1
Os 3
Os 2

SAINT Exploits

Description Link
Horde Imp Unauthenticated Remote Command Execution More info here

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2019-01-14 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2019-1147.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2019-01-03 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-7ebfe1e6f2.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2019-01-03 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-dfe1f0bac6.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-12-17 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1608.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-12-11 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-4353.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2019-10-22 00:19:24
  • First insertion