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Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kdeedu (MDKSA-2005:159)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 19914

Synopsis

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

Description

Ben Burton notified the KDE security team about several tempfile handling related vulnerabilities in langen2kvtml, a conversion script for kvoctrain. This vulnerability was initially discovered by Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña.

The script uses known filenames in /tmp which allow an local attacker to overwrite files writeable by the user (manually) invoking the conversion script.

The updated packages have been patched to correct this problem.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20050815-1.txt

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 19914

File Name: mandrake_MDKSA-2005-159.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: local

Published: 10/5/2005

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:10.1, x-cpe:/o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:le2005, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:kdeedu, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64kdeedu1, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64kdeedu1-devel, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libkdeedu1, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libkdeedu1-devel

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/6/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-2101

MDKSA: 2005:159