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Ubuntu 13.10 : lxc vulnerability (USN-2104-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 72479

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Synopsis

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

Description

Florian Sagar discovered that the LXC sshd template set incorrect mount permissions. An attacker could possibly use this flaw to cause privilege escalation on the host.

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 lxc-templates package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/2104-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 72479

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2104-1.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/13/2014

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless 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: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:lxc-templates, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.10

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/12/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/14/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-6441

USN: 2104-1