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Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 7.10 / 8.04 LTS / 8.10 : udev vulnerabilities (USN-758-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 36530

Synopsis

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

Description

Sebastian Krahmer discovered that udev did not correctly validate netlink message senders. A local attacker could send specially crafted messages to udev in order to gain root privileges. (CVE-2009-1185)

Sebastian Krahmer discovered a buffer overflow in the path encoding routines in udev. A local attacker could exploit this to crash udev, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2009-1186).

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/758-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 36530

File Name: ubuntu_USN-758-1.nasl

Version: 1.22

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/23/2009

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: Critical

Score: 10.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:udev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:volumeid, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvolume-id0, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvolume-id-dev

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/15/2009

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Core Impact

Metasploit (Linux udev Netlink Local Privilege Escalation)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-1185, CVE-2009-1186

CWE: 119, 20

USN: 758-1