USN-2581-1

Tavis Ormandy discovered that NetworkManager incorrectly filtered paths when requested to read modem device contexts. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass privileges and manipulate modem device configuration or read arbitrary files.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / network-manager

Package

Name: network-manager
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/network-manager@0.9.8.8-0ubuntu7.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

0.9.8.8-0ubuntu7.1

Affected versions

0.*

0.9.8.0-0ubuntu22

0.9.8.4-0ubuntu3

0.9.8.8-0ubuntu1

0.9.8.8-0ubuntu4

0.9.8.8-0ubuntu5

0.9.8.8-0ubuntu7

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "gir1.2-networkmanager-1.0",
            "binary_version": "0.9.8.8-0ubuntu7.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libnm-glib-vpn1",
            "binary_version": "0.9.8.8-0ubuntu7.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libnm-glib4",
            "binary_version": "0.9.8.8-0ubuntu7.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libnm-util2",
            "binary_version": "0.9.8.8-0ubuntu7.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "network-manager",
            "binary_version": "0.9.8.8-0ubuntu7.1"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-2581-1.json"

cves_map

{
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS",
    "cves": [
        {
            "id": "CVE-2015-1322",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}