6.2 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
5.1%
It was discovered that libgssglue incorrectly handled the GSSAPI_MECH_CONF environment variable when running a privileged binary. A local attacker could exploit this to gain root privileges.
(CVE-2011-2709).
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.
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1612-1. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See
# <http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered
# trademark of Canonical, Inc.
#
include("compat.inc");
if (description)
{
script_id(62557);
script_version("1.9");
script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/09/19 12:54:28");
script_cve_id("CVE-2011-2709");
script_bugtraq_id(48490);
script_xref(name:"USN", value:"1612-1");
script_name(english:"Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 11.04 / 11.10 / 12.04 LTS : libgssglue vulnerability (USN-1612-1)");
script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for updated package.");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"It was discovered that libgssglue incorrectly handled the
GSSAPI_MECH_CONF environment variable when running a privileged
binary. A local attacker could exploit this to gain root privileges.
(CVE-2011-2709).
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."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://usn.ubuntu.com/1612-1/"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:"Update the affected libgssglue1 package."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgssglue1");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.04");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2012/06/21");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2012/10/15");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2012/10/16");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2012-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2012-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"Ubuntu Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/cpu", "Host/Ubuntu", "Host/Ubuntu/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("ubuntu.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");
if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled") ) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/Ubuntu/release");
if ( isnull(release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu");
release = chomp(release);
if (! preg(pattern:"^(10\.04|11\.04|11\.10|12\.04)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 10.04 / 11.04 / 11.10 / 12.04", "Ubuntu " + release);
if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l") ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Ubuntu", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"10.04", pkgname:"libgssglue1", pkgver:"0.1-4ubuntu0.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"11.04", pkgname:"libgssglue1", pkgver:"0.1-4ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"11.10", pkgname:"libgssglue1", pkgver:"0.3-1ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"12.04", pkgname:"libgssglue1", pkgver:"0.3-4ubuntu0.1")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_WARNING,
extra : ubuntu_report_get()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = ubuntu_pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "libgssglue1");
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
canonical | ubuntu_linux | libgssglue1 | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgssglue1 |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | 10.04 | cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | 11.04 | cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.04 |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | 11.10 | cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.10 |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | 12.04 | cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts |