Executive Summary

Informations
Name MDVSA-2013:244 First vendor Publication 2013-09-30
Vendor Mandriva Last vendor Modification 2013-09-30
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 7.2 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 3.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A vulnerability has been discovered and corrected in davfs2:

Davfs2, a filesystem client for WebDAV, calls the function system() insecurely while is setuid root. This might allow a privilege escalation (CVE-2013-4362).

The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.

Original Source

Url : http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:244

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:19717
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:19717
Title: DSA-2765-1 davfs2 - privilege escalation
Description: Davfs2, a filesystem client for WebDAV, calls the function system() insecurely while is setuid root. This might allow a privilege escalation.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-2765-1
CVE-2013-4362
Version: 5
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 6.0
Debian GNU/Linux 7
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 6.0
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 7
Product(s): davfs2
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:28673
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:28673
Title: DSA-2765-2 -- davfs2 -- privilege escalation
Description: Davfs2, a filesystem client for WebDAV, calls the function systeminsecurely while is setuid root. This might allow a privilege escalation.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-2765-2
CVE-2013-4362
Version: 3
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 6.0
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 6.0
Debian GNU/Linux 7.0
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 7.0
Product(s): davfs2
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 2

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2016-12-05 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201612-02.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-12-20 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2013-17836.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-12-20 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2013-17853.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-11-11 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2013-17828.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-10-01 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing a security update.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2013-244.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-09-27 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-2765.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2014-02-17 11:44:03
  • Multiple Updates
2013-10-11 00:22:42
  • Multiple Updates
2013-10-02 00:24:07
  • Multiple Updates
2013-10-01 17:22:58
  • Multiple Updates
2013-09-30 17:18:55
  • First insertion