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Ubuntu 9.10 / 10.04 LTS : pam vulnerability (USN-959-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 47679

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Synopsis

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

Description

Denis Excoffier discovered that the PAM MOTD module in Ubuntu did not correctly handle path permissions when creating user file stamps. A local attacker could exploit this to gain root privilieges.

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Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/959-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 47679

File Name: ubuntu_USN-959-1.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/8/2010

Updated: 9/19/2019

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.04

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:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpam-doc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpam-runtime, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpam-modules, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpam0g, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpam-cracklib, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpam0g-dev

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/7/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/12/2010

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-0832

USN: 959-1