Ubuntu 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : ppp vulnerability (USN-310-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 27885

Synopsis

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

Description

Marcus Meissner discovered that the winbind plugin of pppd does not check the result of the setuid() call. On systems that configure PAM limits for the maximum number of user processes and enable the winbind plugin, a local attacker could exploit this to execute the winbind NTLM authentication helper as root. Depending on the local winbind configuration, this could potentially lead to privilege escalation.

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Solution

Update the affected ppp, ppp-dev and / or ppp-udeb packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 27885

File Name: ubuntu_USN-310-1.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks

Published: 11/10/2007

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ppp, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ppp-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ppp-udeb, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts

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

Patch Publication Date: 7/6/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-2194

USN: 310-1

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