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Ubuntu 5.10 : tuxpaint vulnerability (USN-243-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 20790

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena discovered that the tuxpaint-import.sh script created a temporary file in an insecure way. This could allow a symlink attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running tuxpaint.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected tuxpaint and / or tuxpaint-data packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 20790

File Name: ubuntu_USN-243-1.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/21/2006

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:tuxpaint-data, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:tuxpaint

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

Patch Publication Date: 1/16/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/16/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-3340

USN: 243-1