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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 8.10 : dash vulnerability (USN-732-1)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 36749
Synopsis
The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.Description
Wolfgang M. Reimer discovered that dash, when invoked as a login shell, would source .profile files from the current directory. Local users may be able to bypass security restrictions and gain root privileges by placing specially crafted .profile files where they might get sourced by other dash users.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 ash and / or dash packages.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 36749
File Name: ubuntu_USN-732-1.nasl
Version: 1.13
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks
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: Medium
Score: 5.9
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.9
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ash, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dash
Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l
Patch Publication Date: 3/10/2009
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2009-0854