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Debian DSA-339-1 : semi - insecure temporary file

medium Nessus Plugin ID 15176

Synopsis

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

Description

NOTE: due to a combination of administrative problems, this advisory was erroneously released with the identifier 'DSA-337-1'. DSA-337-1 correctly refers to an earlier advisory regarding gtksee.

semi, a MIME library for GNU Emacs, does not take appropriate security precautions when creating temporary files. This bug could potentially be exploited to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running Emacs and semi, potentially with contents supplied by the attacker.

wemi is a fork of semi, and contains the same bug.

Solution

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in semi version 1.14.3.cvs.2001.08.10-1woody2 and wemi version 1.14.0.20010802wemiko-1.3.

We recommend that you update your semi and wemi packages.

See Also

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 15176

File Name: debian_DSA-339.nasl

Version: 1.21

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/29/2004

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/6/2003

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2003-0440

BID: 8115

DSA: 339