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Ubuntu 13.10 : indicator-datetime vulnerability (USN-2186-1)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 73800
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Synopsis
The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.Description
It was discovered that the Date and Time Indicator incorrectly allowed Evolution to be opened at the greeter screen. An attacker could use this issue to possibly gain unexpected access to applications such as a web browser with privileges of the greeter user.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 indicator-datetime package.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 73800
File Name: ubuntu_USN-2186-1.nasl
Version: 1.8
Type: Local
Agent: unix
Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Published: 5/1/2014
Updated: 1/19/2021
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: 4.3
Percentile: 53.04
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4.6
Temporal Score: 3.4
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:indicator-datetime
Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 4/30/2014
Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/1/2014
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2013-7374
BID: 67122
USN: 2186-1