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Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : uim (MDKSA-2005:046)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 17215

Synopsis

The remote Mandrake Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Takumi ASAKI discovered that uim always trusts environment variables which can allow a local attacker to obtain elevated privileges when libuim is linked against an suid/sgid application. This problem is only exploitable in 'immodule for Qt' enabled Qt applications.

The updated packages are patched to fix the problem.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/uim/2005-February/000996.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 17215

File Name: mandrake_MDKSA-2005-046.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Published: 2/25/2005

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.3

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:mandriva:linux:libuim0-devel, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:uim-applet, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64uim0, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libuim0, cpe:/o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:10.1, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:uim, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64uim0-devel

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/Mandrake/release, Host/Mandrake/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 2/24/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-0503

MDKSA: 2005:046