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Debian DSA-500-1 : flim - insecure temporary file

low Nessus Plugin ID 15337

Synopsis

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

Description

Tatsuya Kinoshita discovered a vulnerability in flim, an emacs library for working with internet messages, where temporary files were created without taking appropriate precautions. This vulnerability could potentially be exploited by a local user to overwrite files with the privileges of the user running emacs.

Solution

For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.14.3-9woody1.

We recommend that you update your flim package.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-500

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 15337

File Name: debian_DSA-500.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: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:flim, 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: 5/1/2004

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/1/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-0422

BID: 10259

DSA: 500