Newt vulnerability

2009-09-2400:00:00

ubuntu.com

CVSS2

4.6

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

AI Score

Confidence

High

EPSS

Percentile

10.1%

JSON

Releases

Ubuntu 9.04
Ubuntu 8.10
Ubuntu 8.04
Ubuntu 6.06

Packages

newt -

Details

Miroslav Lichvar discovered that Newt incorrectly handled rendering in a
text box. An attacker could exploit this and cause a denial of service or
possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking
the program.

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
Ubuntu9.04noarchlibnewt0.52< 0.52.2-11.3ubuntu3.1UNKNOWN
Ubuntu9.04noarchlibnewt-dev< 0.52.2-11.3ubuntu3.1UNKNOWN
Ubuntu9.04noarchlibnewt-pic< 0.52.2-11.3ubuntu3.1UNKNOWN
Ubuntu9.04noarchnewt-tcl< 0.52.2-11.3ubuntu3.1UNKNOWN
Ubuntu9.04noarchpython-newt< 0.52.2-11.3ubuntu3.1UNKNOWN
Ubuntu9.04noarchpython-newt-dbg< 0.52.2-11.3ubuntu3.1UNKNOWN
Ubuntu9.04noarchwhiptail< 0.52.2-11.3ubuntu3.1UNKNOWN
Ubuntu8.10noarchlibnewt0.52< 0.52.2-11.3ubuntu1.1UNKNOWN
Ubuntu8.10noarchlibnewt-dev< 0.52.2-11.3ubuntu1.1UNKNOWN
Ubuntu8.10noarchlibnewt-pic< 0.52.2-11.3ubuntu1.1UNKNOWN

OS	Version	Architecture	Package	Version	Filename
Ubuntu	9.04	noarch	libnewt0.52	< 0.52.2-11.3ubuntu3.1	UNKNOWN
Ubuntu	9.04	noarch	libnewt-dev	< 0.52.2-11.3ubuntu3.1	UNKNOWN
Ubuntu	9.04	noarch	libnewt-pic	< 0.52.2-11.3ubuntu3.1	UNKNOWN
Ubuntu	9.04	noarch	newt-tcl	< 0.52.2-11.3ubuntu3.1	UNKNOWN
Ubuntu	9.04	noarch	python-newt	< 0.52.2-11.3ubuntu3.1	UNKNOWN
Ubuntu	9.04	noarch	python-newt-dbg	< 0.52.2-11.3ubuntu3.1	UNKNOWN
Ubuntu	9.04	noarch	whiptail	< 0.52.2-11.3ubuntu3.1	UNKNOWN
Ubuntu	8.10	noarch	libnewt0.52	< 0.52.2-11.3ubuntu1.1	UNKNOWN
Ubuntu	8.10	noarch	libnewt-dev	< 0.52.2-11.3ubuntu1.1	UNKNOWN
Ubuntu	8.10	noarch	libnewt-pic	< 0.52.2-11.3ubuntu1.1	UNKNOWN