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Debian DSA-814-1 : lm-sensors - insecure temporary file

low Nessus Plugin ID 19710

Synopsis

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

Description

Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena discovered that a script of lm-sensors, utilities to read temperature/voltage/fan sensors, creates a temporary file with a predictable filename, leaving it vulnerable for a symlink attack.

Solution

Upgrade the lm-sensors package.

The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.9.1-1sarge2.

See Also

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=324193

http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-814

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 19710

File Name: debian_DSA-814.nasl

Version: 1.21

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/17/2005

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/15/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/22/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-2672

DSA: 814