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Ubuntu 11.04 / 11.10 : ldm vulnerability (USN-1398-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 58326

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Synopsis

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

Description

Tenho Tuhkala discovered that the LTSP Display Manager (ldm) incorrectly filtered keybindings. An attacker could use the default keybindings to execute arbitrary commands as root at the login screen.

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 ldm package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1398-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 58326

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1398-1.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/13/2012

Updated: 9/19/2019

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ldm, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.10

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/12/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/21/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-1166

USN: 1398-1