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Ubuntu 12.10 : remote-login-service vulnerability (USN-1624-1)
low Nessus Plugin ID 62818
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Synopsis
The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.Description
It was discovered that Remote Login Service incorrectly purged account information when switching users. A local attacker could use this issue to possibly obtain sensitive information.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 remote-login-service package.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Low
ID: 62818
File Name: ubuntu_USN-1624-1.nasl
Version: 1.9
Type: Local
Agent: unix
Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Published: 11/6/2012
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: Low
Base Score: 2.1
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:remote-login-service
Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l
Patch Publication Date: 11/5/2012
Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/24/2012
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2012-0959
USN: 1624-1