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Ubuntu 11.10 : lightdm vulnerability (USN-1399-2)

low Nessus Plugin ID 58341

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Synopsis

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

Description

Ryan Lortie discovered that a guest session script bundled in the Light Display Manager package improperly cleaned out certain guest session files. A local attacker could use this issue to delete arbitrary files.

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 lightdm package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1399-2/

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 58341

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1399-2.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/14/2012

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: 4.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:lightdm, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.10

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/13/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/22/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-0943

BID: 52452

USN: 1399-2