Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 / 5.10 : heimdal vulnerability (USN-247-1)

low Nessus Plugin ID 21055

Synopsis

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

Description

A privilege escalation flaw has been found in the heimdal rsh (remote shell) server. This allowed an authenticated attacker to overwrite arbitrary files and gain ownership of them.

Please note that the heimdal-servers package is not officially supported in Ubuntu (it is in the 'universe' component of the archive). However, this affects you if you use a customized version built from the heimdal source package (which is supported).

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: 21055

File Name: ubuntu_USN-247-1.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks

Published: 3/13/2006

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: 4.2

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:libgssapi1-heimdal, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:heimdal-servers-x, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libhdb7-heimdal, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:heimdal-servers, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libasn1-6-heimdal, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:heimdal-clients, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libkadm5srv7-heimdal, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:heimdal-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libkadm5clnt4-heimdal, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:heimdal-docs, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libkafs0-heimdal, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:heimdal-kdc, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libkrb5-17-heimdal, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:heimdal-clients-x

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/11/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/6/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-0582

USN: 247-1

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