Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 10.10 / 11.04 : usb-creator vulnerability (USN-1127-1)

low Nessus Plugin ID 55088

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

Evan Broder discovered that usb-creator did not properly enforce restrictions when performing privileged disk operations. A local attacker could use this flaw to perform certain disk operations, such as unmount arbitrary mountpoints.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected usb-creator-common package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1127-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 55088

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1127-1.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/13/2011

Updated: 9/19/2019

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:usb-creator-common, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.04

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Patch Publication Date: 5/2/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/16/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1828

USN: 1127-1