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Debian DSA-895-1 : uim - programming error

medium Nessus Plugin ID 22761

Synopsis

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

Description

Masanari Yamamoto discovered incorrect use of environment variables in uim, a flexible input method collection and library, that could lead to escalated privileges in setuid/setgid applications linked to libuim. Affected in Debian is at least mlterm.

Solution

Upgrade the libuim packages.

The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain uim packages.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.4.6final1-3sarge1.

See Also

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=331620

http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-895

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 22761

File Name: debian_DSA-895.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/14/2006

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/14/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/1/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-3149

DSA: 895