Executive Summary

Summary
Title acpi-support vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-2297-1 First vendor Publication 2014-07-22
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2014-07-22
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 12.04 LTS

Summary:

The system could be made to run programs as an administrator.

Software Description: - acpi-support: scripts for handling many ACPI events

Details:

CESG discovered that acpi-support incorrectly handled certain privileged operations when checking for power management daemons. A local attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code and elevate privileges to root.

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
acpi-support 0.140.2

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

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2297-1
CVE-2014-1419

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi-support/0.140.2

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2297-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-362 Race Condition

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:26072
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:26072
Title: USN-2297-1 -- acpi-support vulnerability
Description: The system could be made to run programs as an administrator.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-2297-1
CVE-2014-1419
Version: 3
Platform(s): Ubuntu 12.04
Product(s): acpi-support
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:26223
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:26223
Title: DSA-2984-1 -- acpi-support - security update
Description: CESG discovered a root escalation flaw in the acpi-support package. An unprivileged user can inject the DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS environment variable to run arbitrary commands as root user via the policy-funcs script.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-2984-1
CVE-2014-1419
Version: 5
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 7
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 7
Product(s): acpi-support
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:28318
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:28318
Title: DSA-2984-2 -- acpi-support regression update
Description: CESG discovered a root escalation flaw in the acpi-support package. An unprivileged user can inject the DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS environment variable to run arbitrary commands as root user via the policy-funcs script.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-2984-2
CVE-2014-1419
Version: 3
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 7.0
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 7.0
Product(s): acpi-support
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2015-03-26 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-30.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-07-24 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-2984.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-07-23 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-2297-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2014-07-24 21:29:21
  • Multiple Updates
2014-07-24 13:25:36
  • Multiple Updates
2014-07-22 21:22:08
  • First insertion