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Debian DSA-539-1 : kdelibs - temporary directory vulnerability

medium Nessus Plugin ID 15376

Synopsis

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

Description

The SUSE security team was alerted that in some cases the integrity of symlinks used by KDE are not ensured and that these symlinks can be pointing to stale locations. This can be abused by a local attacker to create or truncate arbitrary files or to prevent KDE applications from functioning correctly.

Solution

Upgrade the kde packages.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.2.2-13.woody.12.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-539

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 15376

File Name: debian_DSA-539.nasl

Version: 1.22

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: 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:debian:debian_linux:kdelibs, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/17/2004

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/11/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-0689

DSA: 539