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Amazon Linux AMI : dbus (ALAS-2012-128)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 69618

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that the D-Bus library honored environment settings even when running with elevated privileges. A local attacker could possibly use this flaw to escalate their privileges, by setting specific environment variables before running a setuid or setgid application linked against the D-Bus library (libdbus).
(CVE-2012-3524)

Solution

Run 'yum update dbus' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2012-128.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 69618

File Name: ala_ALAS-2012-128.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/4/2013

Updated: 4/18/2018

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:dbus, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:dbus-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:dbus-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:dbus-doc, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:dbus-libs, cpe:/o:amazon:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/AmazonLinux/release, Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/22/2012

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-3524

ALAS: 2012-128

RHSA: 2012:1261