Debian DSA-2472-1 : gridengine - privilege escalation

high Nessus Plugin ID 59166

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Dave Love discovered that users who are allowed to submit jobs to a Grid Engine installation can escalate their privileges to root because the environment is not properly sanitized before creating processes.

Solution

Upgrade the gridengine packages.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 6.2u5-1squeeze1.

See Also

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/gridengine

https://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2472

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 59166

File Name: debian_DSA-2472.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/17/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gridengine, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/15/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-0208

BID: 53123

DSA: 2472