Executive Summary

Summary
Title libunity-webapps vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-1635-1 First vendor Publication 2012-11-21
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2012-11-21
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: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 12.10

Summary:

libunity-webapps could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a malicious website.

Software Description: - libunity-webapps: UnityWebapps library

Details:

It was discovered that libunity-webapps improperly handled certain hash tables. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause libunity-webapps to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 12.10:
libunity-webapps0 2.4.1-0ubuntu3.2

After a standard system update you need to restart your session to make all the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1635-1
CVE-2012-4551

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libunity-webapps/2.4.1-0ubuntu3.2

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1635-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18068
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18068
Title: USN-1635-1 -- libunity-webapps vulnerability
Description: libunity-webapps could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a malicious website.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-1635-1
CVE-2012-4551
Version: 7
Platform(s): Ubuntu 12.10
Product(s): libunity-webapps
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 17

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2012-11-23 Name : Ubuntu Update for libunity-webapps USN-1635-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_1635_1.nasl

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2012-11-23 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-1635-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2014-02-17 12:01:04
  • Multiple Updates
2012-12-04 00:19:39
  • Multiple Updates
2012-12-01 13:26:08
  • Multiple Updates
2012-11-21 17:23:06
  • First insertion