Debian DSA-2212-1 : tmux privilege escalation, tmux not dropping group privilege
Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 26 |
---|---|---|---|---|
NVD | CVE-2011-1496 | 18 Apr 201118:55 | – | nvd |
OpenVAS | Fedora Update for tmux FEDORA-2011-5167 | 21 Apr 201100:00 | – | openvas |
OpenVAS | Fedora Update for tmux FEDORA-2011-5156 | 21 Apr 201100:00 | – | openvas |
OpenVAS | Fedora Update for tmux FEDORA-2011-5156 | 21 Apr 201100:00 | – | openvas |
OpenVAS | Debian Security Advisory DSA 2212-1 (tmux) | 12 May 201100:00 | – | openvas |
OpenVAS | Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-2212-1) | 12 May 201100:00 | – | openvas |
OpenVAS | Fedora Update for tmux FEDORA-2011-5167 | 21 Apr 201100:00 | – | openvas |
securityvulns | [SECURITY] [DSA 2212-1] tmux security update | 11 Apr 201100:00 | – | securityvulns |
CVE | CVE-2011-1496 | 18 Apr 201118:55 | – | cve |
Tenable Nessus | Fedora 13 : tmux-1.4-3.fc13 (2011-5156) | 19 Apr 201100:00 | – | nessus |
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-2212. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(53324);
script_version("1.11");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/04");
script_cve_id("CVE-2011-1496");
script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"2212");
script_name(english:"Debian DSA-2212-1 : tmux - privilege escalation");
script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"Daniel Danner discovered that tmux, a terminal multiplexer, is not
properly dropping group privileges. Due to a patch introduced by
Debian, when invoked with the -S option, tmux is not dropping
permissions obtained through its setgid installation.
The oldstable distribution (lenny) is not affected by this problem, as
it does not include tmux."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=620304"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/tmux"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2212"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:
"Upgrade the tmux packages.
For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.3-2+squeeze1."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:tmux");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2011/04/07");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2011/04/08");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2011-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("debian_package.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"tmux", reference:"1.3-2+squeeze1")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
else security_warning(0);
exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
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