Executive Summary

Summary
Title mountall vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-985-1 First vendor Publication 2010-09-08
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2010-09-08
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 the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu.

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

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
mountall 2.15.2

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

Details follow:

Alasdair MacGregor discovered that mountall created a udev rule file with world-writable permissions. A local attacker could exploit this under certain conditions to cause udev to execute arbitrary commands as the root user.

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-985-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-362 Race Condition

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13141
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13141
Title: USN-985-1 -- mountall vulnerability
Description: Alasdair MacGregor discovered that mountall created a udev rule file with world-writable permissions. A local attacker could exploit this under certain conditions to cause udev to execute arbitrary commands as the root user.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-985-1
CVE-2010-2961
Version: 7
Platform(s): Ubuntu 10.04
Product(s): mountall
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2010-09-10 Name : Ubuntu Update for mountall vulnerability USN-985-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_985_1.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
67914 mountall on Ubuntu mountall.c root.rules File Permission Weakness Privilege E...

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2010-09-09 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-985-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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