Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : devscripts vulnerability (USN-2649-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 84229

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that the uupdate tool incorrectly handled symlinks.
If a user or automated system were tricked into processing specially crafted files, a remote attacker could possibly replace arbitrary files, leading to a privilege escalation.

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 devscripts package.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2649-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 84229

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2649-1.nasl

Version: 2.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/17/2015

Updated: 10/20/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-1833

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:devscripts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/16/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/5/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-1833

BID: 65260

USN: 2649-1