Executive Summary

Summary
Title libsoup vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-4152-1 First vendor Publication 2019-10-09
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2019-10-09
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: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 19.04 - Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Summary:

libsoup could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic.

Software Description: - libsoup2.4: HTTP client/server library for GNOME

Details:

It was discovered that libsoup incorrectly handled parsing certain NTLM messages. If a user or automated system were tricked into connecting to a malicious server, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 19.04:
libsoup2.4-1 2.66.1-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
libsoup2.4-1 2.62.1-1ubuntu0.4

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

References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4152-1
CVE-2019-17266

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libsoup2.4/2.66.1-1ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libsoup2.4/2.62.1-1ubuntu0.4

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-4152-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 76
Os 2

Alert History

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Date Informations
2019-10-11 00:23:56
  • Multiple Updates
2019-10-09 21:19:30
  • First insertion