Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.56700
Category:	Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Title:	Ubuntu USN-278-1 (gdm)
Summary:	NOSUMMARY
Description:	Description: The remote host is missing an update to gdm announced via advisory USN-278-1. A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog) Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger) The following packages are affected: gdm Marcus Meissner discovered a race condition in gdm's handling of the ~ /.ICEauthority file permissions. A local attacker could exploit this to become the owner of an arbitrary file in the system. When getting control over automatically executed scripts (like cron jobs), the attacker could eventually leverage this flaw to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges. Solution: The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to version 2.6.0.7-0ubuntu7.1 (for Ubuntu 5.04) or 2.8.0.5-0ubuntu1.1 (for Ubuntu 5.10). In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes. http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=USN-278-1 Risk factor : Medium CVSS Score: 3.7
Cross-Ref:	BugTraq ID: 17635 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2006-1057 17635 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17635 ADV-2006-1465 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1465 DSA-1040 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1040 FEDORA-2006-338 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-April/msg00160.html MDKSA-2006:083 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:083 RHSA-2007:0286 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0286.html USN-278-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/278-1/ gdm-slavec-symlink(26092) https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26092 http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gdm2/daemon/slave.c?r1=1.260&r2=1.261 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=188303 oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10092 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10092
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