Ubuntu 4.10 : linux-source-2.6.8.1 vulnerability (USN-39-1)

low Nessus Plugin ID 20655

Synopsis

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

Description

USN-30-1 fixed several flaws in the Linux ELF binary loader's handling of setuid binaries. Unfortunately it was found that these patches were not sufficient to prevent all possible attacks on 64-bit platforms, so previous amd64 kernel images were still vulnerable to root privilege escalation if setuid binaries were run under certain conditions.

This issue does not affect the i386 and powerpc platforms.

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 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 20655

File Name: ubuntu_USN-39-1.nasl

Version: 1.14

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: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-doc-2.6.8.1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-tree-2.6.8.1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-2.6.8.1-4-amd64-k8-smp, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-2.6.8.1-4-686-smp, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-2.6.8.1-4-amd64-k8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-source-2.6.8.1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-2.6.8.1-4-386, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-headers-2.6.8.1-4-amd64-generic, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-headers-2.6.8.1-4-386, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-headers-2.6.8.1-4-amd64-xeon, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-headers-2.6.8.1-4-686, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-patch-debian-2.6.8.1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-headers-2.6.8.1-4-amd64-k8, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-2.6.8.1-4-686, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-2.6.8.1-4-amd64-xeon, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-headers-2.6.8.1-4-686-smp, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-2.6.8.1-4-amd64-generic, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-headers-2.6.8.1-4-amd64-k8-smp, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-headers-2.6.8.1-4

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/16/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-1074

USN: 39-1

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