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FreeBSD : ikiwiki -- insufficient blacklisting in teximg plugin (6e8f54af-a07d-11de-a649-000c2955660f)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 40957

Synopsis

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

Description

The IkiWiki development team reports :

IkiWikis teximg plugin's blacklisting of insecure TeX commands is insufficient; it can be bypassed and used to read arbitrary files.

Solution

Update the affected package.

See Also

http://ikiwiki.info/security/#index35h2

http://www.nessus.org/u?ad5f6d62

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 40957

File Name: freebsd_pkg_6e8f54afa07d11dea649000c2955660f.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Published: 9/14/2009

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:ikiwiki, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Patch Publication Date: 9/13/2009

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/28/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-2944