Detections
Analytics

Debian DSA-309-1 : eterm - buffer overflow

medium Nessus Plugin ID 15146

Synopsis

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

Description

'bazarr' discovered that eterm is vulnerable to a buffer overflow of the ETERMPATH environment variable. This bug can be exploited to gain the privileges of the group 'utmp' on a system where eterm is installed.

Solution

For the stable distribution (woody), this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.2-0pre2002042903.1.

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

We recommend that you update your eterm package.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-309

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 15146

File Name: debian_DSA-309.nasl

Version: 1.21

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: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:eterm, 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: 6/6/2003

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/27/2003

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2003-0382

BID: 7708

DSA: 309