Debian DSA-2917-1 : super - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 73745

Synopsis

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

Description

John Lightsey of the Debian Security Audit project discovered that the super package did not check for setuid failures, allowing local users to increase the privileges on kernel versions which do not guard against RLIMIT_NPROC attacks.

Solution

Upgrade the super packages.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 3.30.0-3+squeeze2.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 3.30.0-6+deb7u1.

See Also

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

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/super

https://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2917

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 73745

File Name: debian_DSA-2917.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/29/2014

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: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:super, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/28/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-0470

BID: 67114

DSA: 2917