CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack 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
EPSS
Percentile
12.7%
If the admin configured a gdm theme that provided an user list, any user could activate the gdm setup program by first choosing the setup option from the menu, clicking on the user list and entering his own (instead of root’s) password. This allowed normal users to configure potentially dangerous features like remote or automatic login.
Please note that this does not affect a default Ubuntu installation, since the default theme does not provide an user list. In Ubuntu 6.06 you additionally have to have the ‘ConfigAvailable’ setting enabled in gdm.conf to be vulnerable (it is disabled by default).
Ubuntu 5.04 is not affected by this flaw.
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.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-293-1. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See
# <http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered
# trademark of Canonical, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(27865);
script_version("1.15");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/19");
script_cve_id("CVE-2006-2452");
script_xref(name:"USN", value:"293-1");
script_name(english:"Ubuntu 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : gdm vulnerability (USN-293-1)");
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:
"If the admin configured a gdm theme that provided an user list, any
user could activate the gdm setup program by first choosing the setup
option from the menu, clicking on the user list and entering his own
(instead of root's) password. This allowed normal users to configure
potentially dangerous features like remote or automatic login.
Please note that this does not affect a default Ubuntu installation,
since the default theme does not provide an user list. In Ubuntu 6.06
you additionally have to have the 'ConfigAvailable' setting enabled in
gdm.conf to be vulnerable (it is disabled by default).
Ubuntu 5.04 is not affected by this flaw.
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/293-1/"
);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected gdm package.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/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:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gdm");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2006/06/09");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2007/11/10");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2007-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2018 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 (! ereg(pattern:"^(5\.10|6\.06)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 5.10 / 6.06", "Ubuntu " + release);
if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l") ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Ubuntu", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.10", pkgname:"gdm", pkgver:"2.8.0.5-0ubuntu1.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"gdm", pkgver:"2.14.6-0ubuntu2.1")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_NOTE,
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, "gdm");
}