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Debian DSA-907-1 : ipmenu - insecure temporary file

low Nessus Plugin ID 22773

Synopsis

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

Description

Akira Yoshiyama noticed that ipmenu, an cursel iptables/iproute2 GUI, creates a temporary file in an insecure fashion allowing a local attacker to overwrite arbitrary files utilising a symlink attack.

Solution

Upgrade the ipmenu package.

For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.0.3-4woody1

The stable distribution (sarge) does not contain the ipmenu package.

See Also

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=244709

http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-907

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 22773

File Name: debian_DSA-907.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/14/2006

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ipmenu

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/23/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/19/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-2569

BID: 10269

DSA: 907