Executive Summary

Summary
Title Date and Time Indicator vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-2186-1 First vendor Publication 2014-04-30
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2014-04-30
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:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 4.6 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 3.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

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

- Ubuntu 13.10

Summary:

The Date and Time Indicator would allow unintended access.

Software Description: - indicator-datetime: Simple clock

Details:

It was discovered that the Date and Time Indicator incorrectly allowed Evolution to be opened at the greeter screen. An attacker could use this issue to possibly gain unexpected access to applications such as a web browser with privileges of the greeter user.

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 13.10:
indicator-datetime 13.10.0+13.10.20131023.2-0ubuntu1.1

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make all the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2186-1
CVE-2013-7374

Package Information:

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-datetime/13.10.0+13.10.20131023.2-0ubuntu1.1

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2186-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

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

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:24355
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:24355
Title: USN-2186-1 -- indicator-datetime vulnerability
Description: The Date and Time Indicator would allow unintended access.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-2186-1
CVE-2013-7374
Version: 4
Platform(s): Ubuntu 13.10
Product(s): indicator-datetime
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2014-05-01 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-2186-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2014-05-02 13:24:13
  • Multiple Updates
2014-05-01 21:24:44
  • Multiple Updates
2014-04-30 17:18:07
  • First insertion