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Ubuntu 11.10 : lightdm vulnerability (USN-1382-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 58223

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

Austin Clements discovered that Light Display Manager incorrectly leaked file descriptors to child processes. A local attacker can use this to bypass intended permissions and write to the log file, cause a denial of service, or possibly have another unknown impact.

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 packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1382-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 58223

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1382-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/6/2012

Updated: 9/19/2019

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:liblightdm-gobject-1-0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:liblightdm-qt-1-0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:lightdm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:lightdm-gtk-greeter, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:lightdm-qt-greeter, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.10

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/5/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/5/2012

Reference Information

USN: 1382-1