Executive Summary

Summary
Title network-manager-applet vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-3217-1 First vendor Publication 2017-03-07
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2017-03-07
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:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 6.9 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 10 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 16.10 - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary:

The system could be made to expose sensitive information.

Software Description: - network-manager-applet: GNOME frontend for NetworkManager

Details:

It was discovered that network-manager-applet incorrectly checked permissions when connecting to certain wireless networks. A local attacker could use this issue at the login screen to access local files.

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 16.10:
network-manager-gnome 1.2.6-0ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
network-manager-gnome 1.2.6-0ubuntu0.16.04.2

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
network-manager-gnome 0.9.8.8-0ubuntu4.5

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
network-manager-gnome 0.9.4.1-0ubuntu2.6

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

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3217-1
https://launchpad.net/bugs/1668321

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-applet/1.2.6-0ubuntu1.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-applet/1.2.6-0ubuntu0.16.04.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-applet/0.9.8.8-0ubuntu4.5
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-applet/0.9.4.1-0ubuntu2.6

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3217-1

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Os 4

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2017-07-10 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201707-09.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-08 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-3217-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2017-03-13 21:29:08
  • Multiple Updates
2017-03-09 13:22:49
  • Multiple Updates
2017-03-08 00:24:32
  • First insertion