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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 10.10 / 11.04 / 11.10 : xorg vulnerability (USN-1349-1)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 57707
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Synopsis
The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.Description
It was discovered that the X wrapper incorrectly checked certain console permissions when launched by unprivileged users. An attacker connected remotely could use this flaw to start X, bypassing the console permissions check.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 xserver-xorg package.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 57707
File Name: ubuntu_USN-1349-1.nasl
Version: 1.9
Type: Local
Agent: unix
Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Published: 1/27/2012
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: Low
Score: 3
Percentile: 23.18
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4.6
Temporal Score: 3.8
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xserver-xorg
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: 1/26/2012
Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/5/2014
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2011-4613
BID: 51082
USN: 1349-1