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Ubuntu 13.10 : lightdm vulnerability (USN-2012-1)

low Nessus Plugin ID 70782

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Synopsis

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

Description

Christian Prim discovered that Light Display Manager incorrectly applied the AppArmor security profile when the Guest account is used.
A local attacker could use this issue to possibly gain access to 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 lightdm package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/2012-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 70782

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2012-1.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/7/2013

Updated: 9/19/2019

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 2.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:lightdm, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.10

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/6/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/23/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4459

BID: 63291

USN: 2012-1