Executive Summary

Summary
Title lintian vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-3310-1 First vendor Publication 2017-06-06
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2017-06-06
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 17.04 - Ubuntu 16.10 - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Summary:

lintian could be made to run programs if it processed a specially crafted package.

Software Description: - lintian: Debian package checker

Details:

Jakub Wilk discovered that lintian incorrectly handled deserializing certain YAML files. If a user or automated system were tricked into running lintian on a specially crafted package, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 17.04:
lintian 2.5.50.1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 16.10:
lintian 2.5.48ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
lintian 2.5.43ubuntu0.1

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

References:
https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3310-1
CVE-2017-8829

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lintian/2.5.50.1ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lintian/2.5.48ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lintian/2.5.43ubuntu0.1

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3310-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 64

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2017-06-07 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-3310-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2017-06-08 13:24:58
  • Multiple Updates
2017-06-06 21:23:12
  • First insertion