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Ubuntu 7.10 : compiz vulnerability (USN-537-2)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 28144

Synopsis

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

Description

USN-537-1 fixed vulnerabilities in gnome-screensaver. The fixes were incomplete, and only reduced the scope of the vulnerability, without fully solving it. This update fixes related problems in compiz.

Jens Askengren discovered that gnome-screensaver became confused when running under Compiz, and could lose keyboard lock focus. A local attacker could exploit this to bypass the user's locked screen saver.

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.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/537-2/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 28144

File Name: ubuntu_USN-537-2.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/10/2007

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: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:compiz-plugins, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:compiz-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdecoration0-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:compiz-core, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdecoration0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:compiz-kde, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:compiz, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:compiz-gnome

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/1/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-3920

USN: 537-2