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Debian DSA-794-1 : polygen - programming error

low Nessus Plugin ID 19564

Synopsis

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

Description

Justin Rye noticed that polygen generates precompiled grammar objects world-writable, which can be exploited by a local attacker to at least fill up the filesystem.

Solution

Upgrade the polygen package.

The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain the polygen package.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.6-7sarge1.

See Also

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=325468

http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-794

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 19564

File Name: debian_DSA-794.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/6/2005

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:polygen, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/1/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/1/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-2656

DSA: 794