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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : gparted vulnerability (USN-2471-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 80550

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Synopsis

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

Description

Wolfgang Ettlinger discovered that GParted incorrectly filtered shell metacharacters when running external commands. A local attacker could use this issue with a crafted filesystem label to run arbitrary commands as the administrator.

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 gparted package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/2471-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 80550

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2471-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/15/2015

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

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gparted, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/14/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/19/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-7208

BID: 71739

USN: 2471-1