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Ubuntu 12.10 : pam-xdg-support vulnerability (USN-1766-1)
high Nessus Plugin ID 65608
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Synopsis
The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.Description
Zbigniew Tenerowicz and Sebastian Krzyszkowiak discovered that pam-xdg-support incorrectly handled the PATH environment variable. A local attacker could use this issue in combination with sudo to possibly escalate privileges.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 libpam-xdg-support package.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 65608
File Name: ubuntu_USN-1766-1.nasl
Version: 1.7
Type: Local
Agent: unix
Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Published: 3/19/2013
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: High
Base Score: 7.2
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpam-xdg-support
Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l
Patch Publication Date: 3/18/2013
Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/21/2013
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2013-1052
USN: 1766-1