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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : PAM regression (USN-2935-2)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 89997

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2935-2 advisory.

 USN-2935-1 fixed vulnerabilities in PAM. The updates contained a packaging change that prevented upgrades in certain multiarch environments. This update fixes the problem.

 We apologize for the inconvenience.



Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2935-2

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 89997

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2935-2.nasl

Version: 2.14

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/17/2016

Updated: 9/3/2025

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpam-cracklib, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpam-modules-bin, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpam-modules, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpam-runtime, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpam0g-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpam0g

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/16/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/10/2014

Reference Information

USN: 2935-2