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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : AppArmor vulnerability (USN-2413-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 79383

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2413-1 advisory.

 An AppArmor policy miscompilation flaw was discovered in apparmor_parser. Under certain circumstances, a malicious application could use this flaw to perform operations that are not allowed by AppArmor policy.
 The flaw may also prevent applications from accessing resources that are allowed by AppArmor policy.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2413-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 79383

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2413-1.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/21/2014

Updated: 8/27/2024

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: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-1424

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:apparmor-profiles, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3-apparmor, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:apparmor-notify, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dh-apparmor, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-libapparmor, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libapparmor1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:apparmor-utils, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libapparmor-perl, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libapache2-mod-apparmor, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:apparmor, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3-libapparmor, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-apparmor, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:apparmor-easyprof, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libapparmor-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpam-apparmor

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/20/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/24/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-1424

BID: 71288

USN: 2413-1