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Debian DSA-472-1 : fte - several vulnerabilities

critical Nessus Plugin ID 15309

Synopsis

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

Description

Steve Kemp and Jaguar discovered a number of buffer overflow vulnerabilities in vfte, a version of the fte editor which runs on the Linux console, found in the package fte-console. This program is setuid root in order to perform certain types of low-level operations on the console.

Due to these bugs, setuid privilege has been removed from vfte, making it only usable by root. We recommend using the terminal version (in the fte-terminal package) instead, which runs on any capable terminal including the Linux console.

Solution

For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 0.49.13-15woody1.

We recommend that you update your fte package.

See Also

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=203871

http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-472

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 15309

File Name: debian_DSA-472.nasl

Version: 1.25

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: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/3/2004

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/5/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2003-0648

BID: 10041

CERT: 354838, 900964

DSA: 472