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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS : open-iscsi vulnerability (USN-1235-1)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 56582
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Synopsis
The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.Description
Colin Watson discovered that iscsi_discovery in Open-iSCSI did not safely create temporary files. A local attacker could exploit this to to overwrite arbitrary files with root 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 open-iscsi package.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 56582
File Name: ubuntu_USN-1235-1.nasl
Version: 1.9
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Published: 10/21/2011
Updated: 10/16/2019
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: High
Score: 8.9
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4.4
Temporal Score: 3.6
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:open-iscsi, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts
Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 10/20/2011
Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/23/2009
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2009-1297
BID: 36887