Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 11.10 / 12.04 LTS / 12.10 : dbus-glib vulnerability (USN-1753-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 64929

Synopsis

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

Description

Sebastian Krahmer and Bastien Nocera discovered that DBus-GLib did not properly validate the message sender when the 'NameOwnerChanged' signal was received. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to escalate their privileges.

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 libdbus-glib-1-2 package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1753-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 64929

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1753-1.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/28/2013

Updated: 9/19/2019

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:libdbus-glib-1-2, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10

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: 2/27/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/5/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-0292

BID: 57985

USN: 1753-1