Debian DLA-1420-1 : cinnamon security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 111080

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that there was a symlink attack in the Cinnamon desktop environment.

An attacker could overwrite an arbitrary file on the filesystem via a $HOME/.face icon file (as the cinnamon-settings-users.py GUI runs as root).

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this issue has been fixed in cinnamon version 2.2.16-5+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your cinnamon packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 111080

File Name: debian_DLA-1420.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 7/16/2018

Updated: 9/4/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-13054

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:cinnamon, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:cinnamon-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:cinnamon-common

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/13/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-13054

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