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Ubuntu 8.10 : fglrx-installer vulnerability (USN-721-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 37002

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

Marko Lindqvist discovered that the fglrx installer created an unsafe LD_LIBRARY_PATH on 64bit systems. If a user were tricked into downloading specially crafted libraries and running commands in the same directory, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges.

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/721-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 37002

File Name: ubuntu_USN-721-1.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/23/2009

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xorg-driver-fglrx-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:fglrx-kernel-source, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xorg-driver-fglrx, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:fglrx-amdcccle, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:fglrx-modaliases, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libamdxvba1, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.10

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/17/2009

Reference Information

USN: 721-1