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Debian DSA-704-1 : remstats - tempfile, missing input sanitising

high Nessus Plugin ID 18009

Synopsis

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

Description

Jens Steube discovered several vulnerabilities in remstats, the remote statistics system. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

 - CAN-2005-0387 When processing uptime data on the unix-server a temporary file is opened in an insecure fashion which could be used for a symlink attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the permissions of the remstats user.

 - CAN-2005-0388

 The remoteping service can be exploited to execute arbitrary commands due to missing input sanitising.

Solution

Upgrade the remstats packages.

For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 1.00a4-8woody1.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-704

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 18009

File Name: debian_DSA-704.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/11/2005

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/4/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-0387, CVE-2005-0388

DSA: 704