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Ubuntu 9.10 / 10.04 LTS / 10.10 : shadow vulnerability (USN-1065-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 51997

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Synopsis

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

Description

Kees Cook discovered that some shadow utilities did not correctly validate user input. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to inject newlines into the /etc/passwd file. If the system was configured to use NIS, this could lead to existing NIS groups or users gaining or losing access to the system, resulting in a denial of service or unauthorized access.

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Solution

Update the affected login and / or passwd packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1065-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 51997

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1065-1.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/16/2011

Updated: 9/19/2019

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: 4.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:passwd, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:login, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.10

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/15/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/18/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-0721

USN: 1065-1