Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 : 0088: util-linux (ALINUX3-SA-2024:0088)

low Nessus Plugin ID 236275

Synopsis

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALINUX3-SA-2024:0088 advisory.

Package updates are available for Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 that fix the following vulnerabilities:

CVE-2024-28085:
wall in util-linux through 2.40, often installed with setgid tty permissions, allows escape sequences to be sent to other users' terminals through argv. (Specifically, escape sequences received from stdin are blocked, but escape sequences received from argv are not blocked.) There may be plausible scenarios where this leads to account takeover.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Alibaba Cloud Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 236275

File Name: alinux3_sa_2024-0088.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Family: Alibaba Cloud Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 5/14/2025

Updated: 5/14/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-28085

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:libmount, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:libblkid-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:libuuid-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:libfdisk-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:libuuid, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:util-linux-user-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:libblkid, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:util-linux, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:libmount-devel, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:libuuid-devel, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:libsmartcols-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:util-linux-user, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:libfdisk-devel, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:python3-libmount, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:libblkid-devel, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:uuidd-debuginfo, cpe:/o:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:libfdisk, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:python3-libmount-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:libsmartcols, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:libsmartcols-devel, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:uuidd, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:util-linux-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:util-linux-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:libmount-debuginfo

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/21/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/12/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-28085

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