Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : FUSE vulnerability (USN-2617-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 83779

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-2617-1 advisory.

Tavis Ormandy discovered that FUSE incorrectly filtered environment variables. A local attacker could use this issue to gain administrative privileges.

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-2617-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 83779

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2617-1.nasl

Version: 2.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/22/2015

Updated: 8/27/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.6

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-3202

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.1

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:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:fuse, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:fuse-udeb, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libfuse2-udeb, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libfuse2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libfuse-dev

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: 5/21/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/2/2015

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-3202

USN: 2617-1