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Ubuntu 10.10 : language-selector vulnerability (USN-1115-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 55073

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

Romain Perier discovered that the language-selector D-Bus backend did not correctly check for Policy Kit authorizations. A local attacker could exploit this to inject shell commands into the system-wide locale configuration file, leading to root privilege escalation.

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Solution

Update the affected language-selector-common package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1115-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 55073

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1115-1.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/13/2011

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: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:language-selector-common

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/19/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/29/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-0729, CVE-2011-1842

USN: 1115-1