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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 / 9.10 : emacs22, emacs23 vulnerability (USN-919-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 45377

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Synopsis

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

Description

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the email helper in Emacs did not correctly check file permissions. A local attacker could perform a symlink race to read or append to another user's mailbox if it was stored under a group-writable group-'mail' directory.

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Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/919-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 45377

File Name: ubuntu_USN-919-1.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/30/2010

Updated: 9/19/2019

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs22-gtk, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs22-bin-common, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs22, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs23-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs23-nox, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs22-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs23-el, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs22-el, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs22-nox, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs23-bin-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs23, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs23-lucid, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/29/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/5/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-0825

USN: 919-1