Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 : gdm vulnerabilitiy (USN-278-1)

low Nessus Plugin ID 21372

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

Marcus Meissner discovered a race condition in gdm's handling of the ~/.ICEauthority file permissions. A local attacker could exploit this to become the owner of an arbitrary file in the system. When getting control over automatically executed scripts (like cron jobs), the attacker could eventually leverage this flaw to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges.

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Solution

Update the affected gdm package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 21372

File Name: ubuntu_USN-278-1.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks

Published: 5/13/2006

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: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gdm, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04

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

Patch Publication Date: 5/3/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-1057

USN: 278-1

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