Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : cgmanager vulnerability (USN-2451-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 80392

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

Serge Hallyn discovered that cgmanager did not consistently enforce proper nesting when modifying cgroup properties. A local attacker in a privileged container could use this to set cgroup values for all cgroups.

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Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2451-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 80392

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2451-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/6/2015

Updated: 10/23/2023

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: 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-2014-1425

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

Temporal Score: 5.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/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:cgmanager, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:cgmanager-tests, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:cgmanager-utils, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcgmanager-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcgmanager0, 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: 1/5/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/7/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-1425

USN: 2451-1