Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Unity Settings Daemon vulnerability (USN-2741-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 85983

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that the Unity Settings Daemon incorrectly allowed removable media to be mounted when the screen is locked. If a vulnerability were discovered in some other desktop component, such as an image library, a local attacker could possibly use this issue to gain access to the session.

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 unity-settings-daemon and / or unity-settings-daemon-dev packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2741-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 85983

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2741-1.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/17/2015

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: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-1319

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:unity-settings-daemon, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:unity-settings-daemon-dev, 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: 9/16/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/17/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-1319

USN: 2741-1