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Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 8.10 : network-manager vulnerability (USN-727-2)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 37740

Synopsis

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

Description

USN-727-1 fixed vulnerabilities in network-manager-applet. This advisory provides the corresponding updates for NetworkManager.

It was discovered that NetworkManager did not properly enforce permissions when responding to dbus requests. A local user could perform dbus queries to view system and user network connection passwords and pre-shared keys.

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/727-2/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 37740

File Name: ubuntu_USN-727-2.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/23/2009

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: 5.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnm-glib-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnm-glib0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnm-glib0-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnm-util-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnm-util0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnm-util0-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:network-manager, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:network-manager-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:network-manager-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:network-manager-gnome, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:network-manager-gnome-dbg, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.10

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/3/2009

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-0365, CVE-2009-0578

CWE: 264

USN: 727-2