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Gentoo FoundationGLSA-200408-11

HistoryAug 12, 2004 - 12:00 a.m.

Nessus: "adduser" race condition vulnerability

2004-08-1200:00:00

Gentoo Foundation

security.gentoo.org

3.7 Low

CVSS2

Access Vector

LOCAL

Access Complexity

HIGH

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.2%

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Background

Nessus is a free and powerful network security scanner.

Description

A race condition can occur in “nessus-adduser” if the user has not configured their TMPDIR variable.

Impact

A malicious user could exploit this bug to escalate privileges to the rights of the user running “nessus-adduser”.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time. All users are encouraged to upgrade to the latest available version of Nessus.

Resolution

All Nessus users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge sync
 
 # emerge -pv "&gt;=net-analyzer/nessus-2.0.12"
 # emerge "&gt;=net-analyzer/nessus-2.0.12"

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
Gentooanyallnet-analyzer/nessus<= 2.0.11UNKNOWN

OS	Version	Architecture	Package	Version	Filename
Gentoo	any	all	net-analyzer/nessus	<= 2.0.11	UNKNOWN

3.7 Low

CVSS2

Access Vector

LOCAL

Access Complexity

HIGH

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.2%

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