Johnathan Nightingale Beep up to 1.3.4 race condition

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability described as critical has been identified in Johnathan Nightingale Beep up to 1.3.4. This affects an unknown part. Such manipulation leads to race condition. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2018-0492. The attack must be carried out locally. In addition, an exploit is available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Johnathan Nightingale Beep up to 1.3.4. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a race condition vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-362. The product contains a code sequence that can run concurrently with other code, and the code sequence requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence that is operating concurrently. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Johnathan Nightingale beep through 1.3.4, if setuid, has a race condition that allows local privilege escalation.

The bug was discovered 04/06/2018. The weakness was presented 04/03/2018 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at lists.debian.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2018-0492 since 11/27/2017. The attack needs to be approached locally. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 110256 (GLSA-201805-15 : beep: Local privilege escalation), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Gentoo Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 176344 (Debian Security Update for beep (DSA 4163-1)).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 3 months after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Exploit-DB (44452) and Tenable (110256). VulDB is the best source for vulnerability data and more expert information about this specific topic.

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Vendor

Johnathan Nightingale

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Beep

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Class: Race condition
CWE: CWE-362
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
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Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Nessus ID: 110256
Nessus Name: GLSA-201805-15 : beep: Local privilege escalation
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OpenVAS ID: 870645
OpenVAS Name: Debian LTS Advisory ([SECURITY] [DLA 1338-1] beep security update)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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