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Ubuntu 11.04 / 11.10 / 12.04 LTS : update-manager vulnerabilities (USN-1443-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 59186

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Synopsis

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

Description

It was discovered that Update Manager created system state archive files with incorrect permissions when upgrading releases. A local user could possibly use this to read repository credentials.
(CVE-2012-0948)

Felix Geyer discovered that the Update Manager Apport hook incorrectly uploaded certain system state archive files to Launchpad when reporting bugs. This could possibly result in repository credentials being included in public bug reports. (CVE-2012-0949).

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 update-manager-core package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1443-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 59186

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1443-1.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/18/2012

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: 5.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:update-manager-core, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.10

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

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/31/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-0948, CVE-2012-0949

USN: 1443-1