Executive Summary

Summary
Title sensible-utils vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-3584-1 First vendor Publication 2018-02-26
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2018-02-26
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:

sensible-utils could be made to run programs as your login if it opened a malicious URL.

Software Description: - sensible-utils: Utilities for sensible alternative selection

Details:

Gabriel Corona discovered that sensible-utils incorrectly validated strings when launcher a browser with the sensible-browser tool. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue with a specially crafted URL to conduct an argument injection attack and execute arbitrary code.

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 17.10:
sensible-utils 0.0.10ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
sensible-utils 0.0.9ubuntu0.16.04.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
sensible-utils 0.0.9ubuntu0.14.04.1

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

References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3584-1
CVE-2017-17512

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sensible-utils/0.0.10ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sensible-utils/0.0.9ubuntu0.16.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sensible-utils/0.0.9ubuntu0.14.04.1

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3584-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-74 Failure to Sanitize Data into a Different Plane ('Injection')

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2018-01-15 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2017-2fab3f12c4.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-12-28 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2017-80c6b4d3be.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-12-26 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-4071.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-12-18 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1209.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2018-02-26 21:20:14
  • First insertion