Executive Summary

Summary
Title pam-xdg-support vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-1766-1 First vendor Publication 2013-03-18
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2013-03-18
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 security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 12.10

Summary:

pam-xdg-support could be made to run programs as an administrator.

Software Description: - pam-xdg-support: PAM module for XDG_RUNTIME_DIR support

Details:

Zbigniew Tenerowicz and Sebastian Krzyszkowiak discovered that pam-xdg-support incorrectly handled the PATH environment variable. A local attacker could use this issue in combination with sudo to possibly escalate privileges.

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 12.10:
libpam-xdg-support 0.2-0ubuntu1.1

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

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1766-1
CVE-2013-1052

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pam-xdg-support/0.2-0ubuntu1.1

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1766-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

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

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18008
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18008
Title: USN-1766-1 -- pam-xdg-support vulnerability
Description: pam-xdg-support could be made to run programs as an administrator.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-1766-1
CVE-2013-1052
Version: 7
Platform(s): Ubuntu 12.10
Product(s): pam-xdg-support
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2013-03-19 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-1766-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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2014-02-17 12:01:42
  • Multiple Updates
2013-03-22 21:19:37
  • Multiple Updates
2013-03-21 21:19:22
  • Multiple Updates
2013-03-18 21:17:25
  • First insertion