Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 : heartbeat vulnerability (USN-165-1)

low Nessus Plugin ID 20571

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

Eric Romang discovered that heartbeat created temporary files in an insecure manner. This could allow a symlink attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with root privileges as soon as heartbeat is started.

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Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 20571

File Name: ubuntu_USN-165-1.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks

Published: 1/15/2006

Updated: 1/19/2021

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: 2.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:stonith, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libstonith-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpils0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libstonith0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpils-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:heartbeat, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ldirectord, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:heartbeat-dev

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/11/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-2231

USN: 165-1

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