USN-4794-1

Matthew Garrett discovered that libupnp mishandled POST requests by default. An attacker could use this vulnerability to write files to arbitrary locations in the victim's filesystem, possibly as root. (CVE-2016-6255)

It was discovered that libupnp mishandled certain input. A remote attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-8863)

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS / libupnp

Package

Name: libupnp
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/libupnp@1:1.6.19+git20160116-1ubuntu0.1~esm1?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/xenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1:1.6.19+git20160116-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

Affected versions

1:1.*

1:1.6.19+git20141001-1

1:1.6.19+git20141001-1ubuntu1

1:1.6.19+git20160116-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libupnp-dev",
            "binary_version": "1:1.6.19+git20160116-1ubuntu0.1~esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libupnp6",
            "binary_version": "1:1.6.19+git20160116-1ubuntu0.1~esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libupnp6-dev",
            "binary_version": "1:1.6.19+git20160116-1ubuntu0.1~esm1"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "Available with Ubuntu Pro: https://ubuntu.com/pro"
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS",
    "cves": [
        {
            "id": "CVE-2016-6255",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "high"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2016-8863",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}