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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : mountall vulnerability (USN-985-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 49171

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

Alasdair MacGregor discovered that mountall created a udev rule file with world-writable permissions. A local attacker could exploit this under certain conditions to cause udev to execute arbitrary commands as the root user.

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 mountall package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/985-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 49171

File Name: ubuntu_USN-985-1.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/9/2010

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: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

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:mountall, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/8/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/14/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-2961

USN: 985-1