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RHEL 2.1 : semi (RHSA-2003:231)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 12408

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated semi packages that fix vulnerabilities in semi's temporary file handling are now available.

semi is a MIME library for GNU Emacs and XEmacs used by the wl mail package.

A vulnerability in semi version 1.14.3 and earlier allows an attacker to overwrite arbitrary files with potentially arbitrary contents using the privileges of the user running Emacs and semi. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2003-0440 to this issue.

Users of semi are advised to upgrade to these packages, which contain a backported patch correcting this issue.

Solution

Update the affected semi and / or semi-xemacs packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2003-0440

https://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-339

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003:231

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 12408

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2003-231.nasl

Version: 1.26

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/6/2004

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:semi-xemacs, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:2.1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:semi

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Patch Publication Date: 10/2/2003

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/18/2003

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2003-0440

RHSA: 2003:231