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Debian DSA-1062-1 : kphone - insecure file creation

medium Nessus Plugin ID 22604

Synopsis

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

Description

Sven Dreyer discovered that KPhone, a Voice over IP client for KDE, creates a configuration file world-readable, which could leak sensitive information like SIP passwords.

Solution

Upgrade the kphone package. If the current kphonerc has too lax permissions, you'll need to reset them manually.

The old stable distribution (woody) doesn't contain kphone packages.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 4.1.0-2sarge1.

See Also

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=337830

http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1062

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 22604

File Name: debian_DSA-1062.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/14/2006

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:kphone, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1

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

Patch Publication Date: 5/19/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/6/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-2442

DSA: 1062