Executive Summary

Summary
Title libimobiledevice vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-1927-1 First vendor Publication 2013-08-14
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2013-08-14
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:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 3.3 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 4.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 3.4 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 13.04 - Ubuntu 12.10

Summary:

libimobiledevice could be made to overwrite files as the administrator, or access device keys.

Software Description: - libimobiledevice: Library for communicating with iPhone and iPod Touch devices

Details:

Paul Collins discovered that libimobiledevice incorrectly handled temporary files. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to overwrite arbitrary files and access device keys. In the default Ubuntu installation, this issue should be mitigated by the Yama link restrictions.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 13.04:
libimobiledevice3 1.1.4-1ubuntu6.2

Ubuntu 12.10:
libimobiledevice3 1.1.4-1ubuntu3.2

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1927-1
CVE-2013-2142

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libimobiledevice/1.1.4-1ubuntu6.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libimobiledevice/1.1.4-1ubuntu3.2

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1927-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18017
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18017
Title: USN-1927-1 -- libimobiledevice vulnerability
Description: libimobiledevice could be made to overwrite files as the administrator, or access device keys.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-1927-1
CVE-2013-2142
 Version: 7
Platform(s): Ubuntu 13.04
Ubuntu 12.10
 Product(s): libimobiledevice
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2014-08-30 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.
File : fedora_2014-9092.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-08-15 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-1927-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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2014-02-17 12:02:22
  • Multiple Updates
2014-01-22 00:22:29
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2014-01-19 21:34:42
  • Multiple Updates
2013-08-14 21:20:40
  • First insertion