N/A - USN-3907-1

Executive Summary

Summary
Title	WALinuxAgent vulnerability

Informations
Name	USN-3907-1	First vendor Publication	2019-03-12
Vendor	Ubuntu	Last vendor Modification	2019-03-12
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 :
Cvss Base Score	N/A	Attack Range	N/A
Cvss Impact Score	N/A	Attack Complexity	N/A
Cvss Expoit Score	N/A	Authentication	N/A
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Detail

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

- Ubuntu 18.10 - Ubuntu 18.04 LTS - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary:

WALinuxAgent could be made to expose sensitive information.

Software Description: - walinuxagent: Windows Azure Linux Agent

Details:

It was discovered that WALinuxAgent created swap files with incorrect permissions. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information from the swap file.

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 18.10:
walinuxagent 2.2.32-0ubuntu1~18.10.2

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
walinuxagent 2.2.32-0ubuntu1~18.04.2

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
walinuxagent 2.2.32-0ubuntu1~16.04.2

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
walinuxagent 2.2.32-0ubuntu1~14.04.2

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

References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3907-1
CVE-2019-0804

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/walinuxagent/2.2.32-0ubuntu1~18.10.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/walinuxagent/2.2.32-0ubuntu1~18.04.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/walinuxagent/2.2.32-0ubuntu1~16.04.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/walinuxagent/2.2.32-0ubuntu1~14.04.2