Wicd before 1.7.1 saves sensitive information in log files in /var/log/wicd, which allows context-dependent attackers to obtain passwords and other sensitive information.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201206-08 (Wicd: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Two vulnerabilities have been found in Wicd:
      Passwords and passphrases are written to /var/log/wicd         (CVE-2012-0813).
      Input from the daemon's D-Bus interface is not properly sanitized         (CVE-2012-2095).
  Impact :

    A local attacker could gain privileges of the root user or obtain       sensitive information.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

- CVE-2012-0813

A sensitive information disclosure flaw was found in the way wicd, wireless and wired network connection manager, performed management of sensitive information, to be stored in log files. Fields like 'password', 'identity', 'private_key', 'private_key_passwd' etc., were not excluded from being logged into /var/log/wicd log file, which could allow local attacker, with the privileges of the 'adm' group to view content of these entities in plain text, leading to information disclosure. This update fixes the problem.

A reboot is not technically necessary, but if you do not reboot your system after installing this update, you should at least restart the wicd service.

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
59646	GLSA-201206-08 : Wicd: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	Local	medium
57987	Fedora 15 : wicd-1.7.0-11.fc15 (2012-1077)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	low
57986	Fedora 16 : wicd-1.7.0-10.fc16 (2012-1059)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	low

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2012-0813

high

Tenable Plugins

medium

low

low