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Debian DSA-150-1 : interchange - illegal file exposition

medium Nessus Plugin ID 14987

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

A problem has been discovered in Interchange, an e-commerce and general HTTP database display system, which can lead to an attacker being able to read any file to which the user of the Interchange daemon has sufficient permissions, when Interchange runs in 'INET mode' (internet domain socket). This is not the default setting in Debian packages, but configurable with Debconf and via configuration file. We also believe that this bug cannot exploited on a regular Debian system.

This problem has been fixed by the package maintainer in version 4.8.3.20020306-1.woody.1 for the current stable distribution (woody) and in version 4.8.6-1 for the unstable distribution (sid). The old stable distribution (potato) is not affected, since it doesn't ship the Interchange system.

Solution

Upgrade the interchange packages.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-150

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 14987

File Name: debian_DSA-150.nasl

Version: 1.21

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/29/2004

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:interchange

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/13/2002

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/13/2002

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2002-0874

BID: 5453

DSA: 150