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Debian DSA-285-1 : lprng - insecure temporary file

low Nessus Plugin ID 15122

Synopsis

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

Description

Karol Lewandowski discovered that psbanner, a printer filter that creates a PostScript format banner and is part of LPRng, insecurely creates a temporary file for debugging purpose when it is configured as filter. The program does not check whether this file already exists or is linked to another place, psbanner writes its current environment and called arguments to the file unconditionally with the user id daemon.

Solution

Upgrade the lprng package.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 3.8.10-1.2.

The old stable distribution (potato) is not affected by this problem.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-285

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 15122

File Name: debian_DSA-285.nasl

Version: 1.23

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: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:lprng, 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: 4/14/2003

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/13/2003

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2003-0136

BID: 7334

DSA: 285