Debian DSA-446-1 : synaesthesia - insecure file creation

high Nessus Plugin ID 15283

Synopsis

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

Description

Ulf Harnhammar from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered a vulnerability in synaesthesia, a program which represents sounds visually. synaesthesia created its configuration file while holding root privileges, allowing a local user to create files owned by root and writable by the user's primary group. This type of vulnerability can usually be easily exploited to execute arbitrary code with root privileges by various means.

Solution

For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.1-2.1woody1.

We recommend that you update your synaesthesia package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 15283

File Name: debian_DSA-446.nasl

Version: 1.21

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

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: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: No exploit is required

Patch Publication Date: 2/21/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-0160

BID: 9713

DSA: 446

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