Debian DSA-223-1 : geneweb - information exposure

medium Nessus Plugin ID 15060

Synopsis

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

Description

A security issue has been discovered by Daniel de Rauglaudre, upstream author of geneweb, a genealogical software with web interface. It runs as a daemon on port 2317 by default. Paths are not properly sanitized, so a carefully crafted URL lead geneweb to read and display arbitrary files of the system it runs on.

Solution

Upgrade the geneweb package.

For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 4.06-2.

The old stable distribution (potato) is not affected.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-223

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 15060

File Name: debian_DSA-223.nasl

Version: 1.20

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/29/2004

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: No exploit is required

Patch Publication Date: 1/7/2003

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2002-1390

BID: 6549

DSA: 223