Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title Wayland vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-3622-1 First vendor Publication 2018-04-09
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2018-04-09
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:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 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 17.10 - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary:

Wayland could be made to crash or run programs if it opened a specially crafted file.

Software Description: - wayland: Wayland compositor infrastructure

Details:

It was discovered that the Wayland Xcursor support incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could use these issues to cause Wayland to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 17.10:
libwayland-cursor0 1.14.0-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
libwayland-bin 1.12.0-1~ubuntu16.04.3
libwayland-client0 1.12.0-1~ubuntu16.04.3
libwayland-cursor0 1.12.0-1~ubuntu16.04.3
libwayland-dev 1.12.0-1~ubuntu16.04.3
libwayland-doc 1.12.0-1~ubuntu16.04.3
libwayland-server0 1.12.0-1~ubuntu16.04.3

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
libwayland-cursor0 1.4.0-1ubuntu1.1

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make all the necessary changes.

References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3622-1
CVE-2017-16612

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wayland/1.14.0-1ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wayland/1.12.0-1~ubuntu16.04.3
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wayland/1.4.0-1ubuntu1.1

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3622-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 8
Os 4
Os 2

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2018-03-07 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-0eed1be1c0.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-03-07 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-1c5dada34b.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-01-19 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.
File : EulerOS_SA-2018-1003.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-01-19 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.
File : EulerOS_SA-2018-1004.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-01-08 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201801-04.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-12-18 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_ddecde18e33b11e7a29354e1ad3d6335.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-12-11 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1201.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-12-11 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-4059.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-12-06 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2017-3214-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-11-30 Name : The remote Slackware host is missing a security update.
File : Slackware_SSA_2017-333-01.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-11-30 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-3501-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2018-04-09 21:19:33
  • First insertion