{"id":58414,"date":"2024-07-24T17:20:47","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T14:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/files\/179710\/USN-6912-1.txt"},"modified":"2024-07-24T17:20:47","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T14:20:47","slug":"ubuntu-security-notice-usn-6912-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/ubuntu-security-notice-usn-6912-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6912-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>==========================================================================<br \/>Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6912-1<br \/>July 24, 2024<\/p>\n<p>provd vulnerability<br \/>==========================================================================<\/p>\n<p>A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Ubuntu 24.04 LTS<\/p>\n<p>Summary:<\/p>\n<p>provd could be made to run programs as an administrator.<\/p>\n<p>Software Description:<br \/>&#8211; provd: Ubuntu Desktop Provision init backend<\/p>\n<p>Details:<\/p>\n<p>James Henstridge discovered that provd incorrectly handled environment<br \/>variables. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to run arbitrary<br \/>programs and escalate privileges.<\/p>\n<p>Update instructions:<\/p>\n<p>The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following<br \/>package versions:<\/p>\n<p>Ubuntu 24.04 LTS<br \/>provd 0.1.2+24.04<\/p>\n<p>In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.<\/p>\n<p>References:<br \/>https:\/\/ubuntu.com\/security\/notices\/USN-6912-1<br \/>CVE-2024-6714,https:\/\/bugs.launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/provd\/+bug\/2071574<\/p>\n<p>Package Information:<br \/>https:\/\/launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/provd\/0.1.2+24.04<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>==========================================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6912-1July 24, 2024 provd vulnerability========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: &#8211; Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Summary: provd could be made to run programs as an administrator. Software Description:&#8211; provd: Ubuntu Desktop Provision init backend Details: James Henstridge discovered that provd incorrectly handled environmentvariables. A local attacker could &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}