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Ubuntu 10.10 : pam vulnerability (USN-959-2)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 50342

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Synopsis

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

Description

USN-959-1 fixed vulnerabilities in PAM. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 10.10.

Denis Excoffier discovered that the PAM MOTD module in Ubuntu did not correctly handle path permissions when creating user file stamps. A local attacker could exploit this to gain root privilieges.

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/959-2/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 50342

File Name: ubuntu_USN-959-2.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/26/2010

Updated: 9/19/2019

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpam-doc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpam-runtime, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpam-modules, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpam0g, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpam-cracklib, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpam0g-dev

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: 10/25/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/12/2010

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-0832

BID: 41465

USN: 959-2