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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS : logrotate vulnerability (USN-5447-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 161615

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5447-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that logrotate incorrectly handled the state file. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to keep a lock on the state file and cause logrotate to stop working, leading to a denial of service.

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 logrotate package.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5447-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 161615

File Name: ubuntu_USN-5447-1.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/27/2022

Updated: 8/28/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-1348

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:logrotate

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/26/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/25/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-1348

USN: 5447-1