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Debian DSA-1531-2 : policyd-weight - insecure temporary files

medium Nessus Plugin ID 31687

Synopsis

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

Description

Chris Howells discovered that policyd-weight, a policy daemon for the Postfix mail transport agent, created its socket in an insecure way, which may be exploited to overwrite or remove arbitrary files from the local system.

Solution

Upgrade the policyd-weight package.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.1.14-beta-6etch2.

The old stable distribution (sarge) does not contain a policyd-weight package.

See Also

https://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1531

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 31687

File Name: debian_DSA-1531.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/28/2008

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: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:policyd-weight, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/27/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-1569, CVE-2008-1570

CWE: 362, 59

DSA: 1531