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Fedora 22 : lxdm-0.4.1-10.fc22 (2015-adbae85c55)

🗓️ 04 Mar 2016 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
nessus
 nessus
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The lxdm package in Fedora 22 (version 0.4.1-10.fc22) does not close file descriptor for log file and allows any local user to connect X

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Code
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Fedora Security Advisory 2015-adbae85c55.
#

include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(89368);
  script_version("1.3");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/11");

  script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2015-adbae85c55");

  script_name(english:"Fedora 22 : lxdm-0.4.1-10.fc22 (2015-adbae85c55)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package.");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Fedora host is missing a security update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"It is found that lxdm does not close file descriptor for log file
althouhg it should. Also session started via lxdm can allow any local
user to connect X. This new rpm should fix these issues.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable
has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible
without introducing additional issues."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1268900"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=846086"
  );
  # https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169437.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?a397837b"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected lxdm package.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"risk_factor", value:"High");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:lxdm");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:22");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2015/10/17");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/03/04");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2021 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
  script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");

if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora");
os_ver = eregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! ereg(pattern:"^22([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 22.x", "Fedora " + os_ver);

if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu);

flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC22", reference:"lxdm-0.4.1-10.fc22")) flag++;


if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_hole(0);
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "lxdm");
}

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